Politician vs Gherao - What's the difference?
politician | gherao |
One engaged in politics, especially an elected or appointed government official.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-31, volume=408, issue=8851, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Specifically, one who regards elected political office as a career.
* {{quote-book, 1996, (Tom Clancy), page=438, isbn=0399142185, title=
, passage=I never wanted to be one, and as far as I'm concerned, I'm not a politician now. Am I the best man for this job? Probably not. I am, however, the President of the United States,
A politically active or interested person.
* {{quote-book, 1863, chapter=The Fountain Kloof, , page=211, title=
, passage=You used to be such a politician . Do you remember the debates we held in Fitzroy's rooms?}}
A sly or ingratiating person.
* {{quote-book, 1969, David E. Sanford, title=
, passage=Mrs. Dimitriou blushed at the compliment. "Antonios, you are such a politician ," her husband chuckled. }}
(India) A protest in which a group of people surrounds a politician, building, etc. until demands are met.
* 2002 , Bharti Kirchner, Darjeeling , St. Martin's Press (2002), ISBN 0312286422,
* 2007 , Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy , Macmillan (2007), ISBN 9780330396110,
* 2011 , Arun Sinha, Nitish Kumar and the Rise of Bihar , Viking (2011), ISBN 9780670084593,
(India) To surround for this purpose.
* 1996 , Kavery Nambisan, The Scent of Pepper , Penguin (2010), ISBN 9780140264432,
* 2006 , Shakuntala Devi, Employment of Labour and Rural Development , Sarup & Sons (2006), ISBN 8176257168,
* 2010 , B. G. Verghese, First Draft: Witness to the Making of Modern India , Tranquebar Press (2010), ISBN 9789380283760,
As nouns the difference between politician and gherao
is that politician is one engaged in politics, especially an elected or appointed government official while gherao is (india) a protest in which a group of people surrounds a politician, building, etc until demands are met.As a verb gherao is
(india|transitive) to surround for this purpose.politician
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Alternative forms
* polititian (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)The Satirical Verses, passage=It is not just politicians who find aspects of the explosion in satire unwelcome. Thanks to the internet, professional purveyors of the stuff face a lot more competition. For once, the joke is at their expense. A niche craft practised by a talented few has turned into a globally popular hobby, and what was once considered audacious commentary is now mainstream.}}
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gherao
English
Noun
(wikipedia gherao) (en-noun)page 26:
- They had done a gherao and trapped the manager in his office for a whole day.
page 425:
- This was an invitation to strike: according to one estimate, there were more than 1,200 gheraos in the first six months of the first UF-LF government.
page 40:
- They led us in a mob to the administrative office of the Patna University, blockaded the main entrance and besieged the vice chancellor's office in a gherao
Verb
(en verb)page 215:
- One day the city magistrate asked the army for help to curb a protest march by women Congress workers who had threatened to gherao the officials in the divisional office.
page 53:
- In reply, the cultivators, apparently now protesting under the banner of the BKU gheraoed the power station.
unnumbered page:
- Further incensed by the findings of two Citizen's Inquiry Committees that he had set up to probe the earlier police firings in Gaya and Patna, JP now announced a programme that involved picketing the Assembly, gheraoing the residences of MLAs,