politburo
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- noun
- /ˈpɒlɪtˌbjʊəroʊ/
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buró político
- Five of the seven top leaders in the Standing Committee of the Politburo, including President Hu and Premier Wen, will retire.
- politburo member
- Politburo Standing
- Politburo of the party
That the entire Chinese Politburo, the whole Chinese PLA doesn't operate that way.
- That the entire Chinese Politburo, the whole Chinese PLA doesn't operate that way.
- He brought that up with the Politburo.
- Outrageous remarks elicited strong condemnation from the Politburo.
- A key question to ask about the Chinese system is behind closed doors, let's say in a Politburo meeting, Do people have a real conversation?
- After collapsing from a heart attack at a Politburo meeting, Hu Yu Bang, the general secretary of the CCP, died.
- And during the meeting with his friends from the Politburo of Central Committee of Communist Party, Mr Biden betrayed Russian Soviet dissidents.
- So the people who really, really owed everything to him that that sort of position and the heads of the KGB were not members of Politburo.
Examples
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As noted earlier, Chen Xitong was removed from the Politburo following corruption charges.
Academic text (2002) -
Hu Jintao is the youngest member of the Politburo Standing Committee.
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A key question to ask about the Chinese system is behind closed doors, let's say in a Politburo meeting, Do people have a real conversation?
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He resigned from the Politburo of the the Communist Party, and nobody had ever done that before.
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Finally, the deadlock within the Politburo broke to the advantage of the reformers.
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Gorbachev told the Politburo that permitting the change would spell "the end of the empire."
Academic text (2007) -
The party has yet to unveil its 25-member Politburo and the 12-member Central Military Commission.
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Chen Xitong lost his seat on the Politburo when he was implicated in financial scandals.
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According to sources in Beijing, however, Deng Xiaoping intervened immediately and asked the CCP Politburo to pass the above-mentioned resolutions.
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The Chinese Politburo meets regularly to discuss important policy changes.
Synonyms
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A small permanent group in some countries that makes decisions for parliament when it is not meeting
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word politburo comes from a Russian short form of political and bureau, where bureau means 'office' or 'committee'. So it originally named the small group inside a Communist Party that made the main political decisions.