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pollutician en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of pollution + politician.

Meanings

1. (derogatory) A politician who supports policies and initiatives that result in environmental damage.
   • Here the polluticians and the developers carved up the cake with gusto. 2001, Peter Casey, 30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account, Bloomsbury, published 2008, →ISBN, page 211:
2. (derogatory, sometimes) A politician who supports policies and initiatives designed to reduce environmental pollution.
   • Too many owners of factory chimneys have already capitulated to the negative attitude of the polluticians and have converted to smokeless fuels. 1971, Electroplating and Metal Finishing, volume 24:
3. (derogatory) A corrupt politician
   • Indeed the Rastafarian brethren contend that the '"polluticians" [politicians] are selling us out' for their own self-serving interests. 2005, Jalani A. Niaah, “Absent Father(s), Garvey's Scattered Children and the Back to Africa Movement”, in Elísio Salvado Macamo, editor, Negotiating Modernity: Africa's Ambivalent Experience, Codesria, →ISBN, page 24:

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