Politburo

Or Po·lit·bu·reau

[pol-it-byoor-oh, poh-lit-, puh-lit-]

noun

1. (often lowercase),  the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.

Politburo

/ ˈpɒlɪtˌbjʊərəʊ /

noun

1. the executive and policy-making committee of a Communist Party

2. the supreme policy-making authority in most Communist countries

politburo

1. A commonly used name for those who made the major governmental decisions in the former Soviet Union. A politburo, in general, is the chief committee of a communist party.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Politburo¹

< Russian politbyuró, shortening of politícheskoe byuró political bureau

Word History and Origins

Origin of Politburo¹

C20: from Russian: contraction of Politicheskoe Buro political bureau

Example Sentences

Prosecutors alleged that he and Berry, a former teacher, handed politically sensitive information to a Chinese Politburo member.

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Qin was succeeded as foreign minister by his predecessor, Wang Yi, who is also the Communist Party’s top foreign-policy official and a member of the elite 24-member Politburo.

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It was a small group of people who’d worked with Biden for decades—the “Politburo”—who met with him on any sort of regular basis.

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Targets for scorn include what the authors term “the Politburo”—longtime Biden advisers, like Mike Donilon and Steve Ricchetti—as well as the Biden family and their closest personal aides.

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He was assisted in that delusion, the authors claim, by the mythology his family erected around him — that he was indestructible — and by his zealously protective inner circle, dubbed “the Politburo.”

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