Usually means: Organized group controlling political power.
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  1. political machine: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. political machine: Vocabulary.com
  3. political-machine: Wordnik
  4. political machine: Wiktionary
  5. political machine, machine, political: Dictionary.com
  6. Political machine, The Political Machine (series), The Political Machine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. political machine: Rhymezone
  8. political machine: FreeDictionary.org
  9. political machine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. political machine: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. political machine: Legal dictionary

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  1. political machine: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (political machine)

noun:  (US politics, chiefly historical) A local political organization or individual politician that controls a large number of personal votes and can therefore exert political influence, and is therefore often viewed as scandalous.

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