corrupt politician

collocation in English

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corrupt
adjective
uk
/kəˈrʌpt/us
/kəˈrʌpt/
dishonestly using your position or power to get an advantage, especially ...
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politician
noun[C]
uk
/ˌpɒl.ɪˈtɪʃ.ən/us
/ˌpɑː.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/
a member of a government or ...
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(Definition ofcorruptandpoliticianfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Poverty, therefore, is a disease inflicted upon innocent populations by evil dictators, greedy and corrupt politicians.
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Secondly, in some cases organised crime thrives because it has the backing and cooperation of corrupt politicians or corrupt policemen.
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It should not be put into the pockets of corrupt politicians and officials.
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I hold no brief for corrupt politicians, of whom there are remarkably few in any party.
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This force is represented by an ambitious andcorruptpolitician, seeking to ascend to presidency.
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In this film, he played the role of acorruptpolitician.
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Their current assignment is getting the goods on acorruptpolitician.
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Some of his more famous roles have been as a crooked businessman or acorruptpolitician.
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The novel is described as a modernist story about a piano-playing prodigy and her obsessive lover, acorruptpolitician.
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Among the other persons who are shown being subjected to the deprogramming are acorruptpoliticianand a drug dealer.
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We do not believe that electoral rules affect the incentives and ability of journalists to go after corrupt politicians.
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A whole epoch was condemned as 'vulgar ' + as if these features could be overcome simply by the removal of a group of corrupt politicians.
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They were paid to chase armed robbers, not corrupt politicians.
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Empirically, of course, we cannot know with confidence what corrupt politicians do with the ill-gotten gains that they pocket.
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He is also a verycorruptpolitician.
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In this particular context, many scholars note that authoritarianism is probably bad for growth because it prevents the public from evicting corrupt politicians even when the national economy is crumbling.
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Throughout the late 1940s and 1950s political debate was fuelled by a widespread feeling that corrupt politicians had ' betrayed ' and cynically manipulated the popular sentiments and expectations of 1933-40.
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It was designed to benefit corrupt politicians in the country concerned and to benefit certain companies in this country.
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I cannot see the discredited and rather corrupt politicians of the last régime being brought back by popular acclaim.
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