political machine

1. 1.

   a group that controls the activities of a political party

   “he was endorsed by the Democratic machine”

   Synonymsmachine

   Broaderorganization

Questions about political machine

What does political machine mean?

political machine means "a group that controls the activities of a political party".

What is another word for political machine?

Close synonyms include machine. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is political machine a common word?

political machine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.