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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

We have letters from all sorts of persons, great lords and little, statesmen and travellers, placemen and place-hunters; and amusing enough many of them are.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various

The placemen, who were denounced as one of the great abuses of the time, were rewarded for voting power not for literary merit.

From English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

In the prosecution of their measures they were traversed by an opposition of a new and singular character; an opposition of placemen and pensioners.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

Other Memoranda dealt mainly with the difficult question of compensation to the borough-holders and placemen who would suffer by the proposed change.

From William Pitt and the Great War by Rose, John Holland