politburo

politburo

See also: Politbüro

English

WOTD – 30 December 2020

Etymology

Members of the Politburo (sense 1) of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1939; Joseph Stalin, the Party’s General Secretary, is shown at the top left.

Borrowed from Russian Политбюро́ (Politbjuró, “politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union”), a contraction of полити́ческое бюро́ (politíčeskoje bjuró, “political bureau”).[1]

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒlɪtˌbjʊəɹəʊ/, /-ˌbjɔː-/

• Audio (RP)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑlətˌbjʊɹoʊ/, /ˈpoʊ-/
• Hyphenation: po‧lit‧bu‧ro

Noun

politburo (plural politburos)

1. The governing council and chief policymaking body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and other Marxist-Leninist political systems.
2. (by extension, sometimes derogatory) A senior governing or policymaking body in a political or other organization, generally consisting of members who are either appointed by the party in control of the organization, or who attain membership through their personal political affiliations.

Alternative forms

• Politburo
• politbureau, Politbureau (dated)

Translations

governing council and chief policymaking body of a Marxist-Leninist political system

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: քաղբյուրո (hy) (kʿałbyuro) Belarusian: Палітбюро́ n (Palitbjuró), палітбюро́ n (palitbjuró) Bulgarian: политбюро́ n (politbjuró) Catalan: politburó m Chinese: Mandarin: 政治局 (zh) (zhèngzhìjú) Czech: politbyro n Finnish: politbyroo (fi) French: bureau politique (fr) m, politburo (fr) m German: Politbüro (de) n Greek: πολιτικό γραφείο n (politikó grafeío) Japanese: 政治局 (せいじきょく, seijikyoku) Korean: 정치국 (jeongchiguk), 폴리트뷰로 (polliteubyuro) Norwegian: Bokmål: politbyrå n Persian: please add this translation if you can Polish: Biuro Polityczne n, politbiuro n Portuguese: politburo (pt) m Romanian: birou politic (ro) n Russian: Политбюро́ n (Politbjuró), политбюро́ (ru) n (politbjuró) Spanish: politburó m, buró político m Swedish: politbyrå c Ukrainian: Політбюро́ n (Politbjuró), політбюро́ n (politbjuró) Vietnamese: bộ chính trị (vi)

senior governing or policymaking body in a political or other organization

Chinese: Mandarin: 政治局 (zh) (zhèngzhìjú) Finnish: politbyroo (fi) Norwegian: Bokmål: politbyrå n Russian: please add this translation if you can

See also

• junta

References

1. “Politburo, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2006; “politburo, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Further reading

• politburo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɔ.liˈtbu.ɾu/ [pɔ.liˈtβu.ɾu]

Noun

politburo m (plural politburos)

1. politburo (governing council of the Soviet Union)