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Politburo

Or ʴ···𲹳

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

noun

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



Politburo

/ ˈɒɪˌʊəəʊ /

noun

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

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

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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.

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of politburo1

< Russian DZٲܰó, shortening of politícheskoe byuró political bureau
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of politburo1

C20: from Russian: contraction of Politicheskoe Buro political bureau
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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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Hoshyar Zebari, a senior member of the KDP's politburo, sought to blame the PKK for Turkey's presence in Iraqi Kurdistan.

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Xi and the six other members of the Politburo Standing Committee were out planting trees to draw attention to the need to counter deforestation.

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