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Placeman

noun
(pl. placemen)
1.
A disparaging term for an appointee.  Synonym: placeseeker.






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"Placeman" Quotes from Famous Books



... of her son the Captain, the Colonel, the General, and have his picture painted with all his stars and epaulets, when poor I shall be but a dawdling poetaster, or, if we may hope for the best, a snug placeman, with a little box at Richmond or Kew, and a half-score of little picaninnies, that will come and bob curtseys at the garden-gate when their uncle the General rides up on his great charger, with his aide-de-camp's pockets filled with gingerbread for the nephews and ...
— The Virginians • William Makepeace Thackeray



Words linked to "Placeman" :   UK, United Kingdom, U.K., Britain, appointee, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Great Britain



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