Noun

(en noun)

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= 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.}}

Specifically, one who regards elected political office as a career.

* {{quote-book, 1996, (Tom Clancy), page=438, isbn=0399142185, title= Executive Orders

, 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= The Sunday at Home

, 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= My Village, My World, page=90

, passage=Mrs. Dimitriou blushed at the compliment. "Antonios, you are such a politician ," her husband chuckled. }}

Noun

(wikipedia gherao) (en-noun)

(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, page 26:

They had done a gherao and trapped the manager in his office for a whole day.

* 2007 , Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy , Macmillan (2007), ISBN 9780330396110, 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.

* 2011 , Arun Sinha, Nitish Kumar and the Rise of Bihar , Viking (2011), ISBN 9780670084593, 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