professional politician
Full-time elected official
A professional politician is someone who has made a career of holding elected or appointed office, as opposed to citizens who enter politics temporarily or as a second act.
The term often carries a faintly pejorative connotation, suggesting someone more skilled at winning elections and navigating party machinery than at governing effectively: The voters wanted an outsider, not another professional politician.
- campaignerOne who advocates publicly
- legislatorElected maker of laws
- incumbentCurrent position holder
- voteFormal choice expression
- electionsFormal choosing of officials
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professional politicianprivate citizen
volunteer · ordinary citizen · hobbyist · grassroots activist · layperson
professional politicianstatesman
Respected political leader
stateswoman · public servant · servant leader · idealist · true believer
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