placeman
noun
a person appointed to a position, especially one in the government, as a reward for political support of an elected official.
placemen
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pluralof placeman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But while the administrators controlled Polly Peck's assets on paper and in law, in Northern Cyprus and Turkey those properties and businesses remained firmly in the hands of the tycoon's placemen.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 26, 2012
Some of the latter were men of honour and energy, but others were mere placemen in need of a job.
From The Tribune of Nova Scotia A Chronicle of Joseph Howe by W. L. (William Lawson) Grant
Would not even this emasculate order of placemen, standing apart a sacrificed though favored class, still present themselves as unpardonable offenders?
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. by Various
When first to the village he went; All pensions and placemen were bad, Of doctrine so foul he’s relent, By vanity’s rays he’s misled.
From An Address to a Wealthy Libertine or, the Melancholy Effects of Seduction; with a Letter from an Unfortunate Farmer's Daughter, to her Parents in Norfolk by James Parkerson
This small body of Whigs therefore laboured, though with little success, to maintain the purity and independence of the Commons by the exclusion of placemen and the reduction of sinecures.
From A Short History of English Liberalism by Walter Lyon Blease
