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DictionarypolitburoParty leadership committee
noun

politburo

PAH-luht-byoor-oh/ˈpɑːlɪtbjʊrəʊ/

The chief policy-making committee of a Communist party.

The Communist Party's politburo meets today to set national economic policy.

Small chief communist-party policy committee seated around conference table, senior official proposes plan while others consider blank papers, small red banner with simple hammer-and-sickle emblem essential to communist context.
Etymology
politRussianpolitical
+buroRussianbureau, office

The pieces mean “political bureau”: the name identifies an organizational office by its political function. It designates the communist party’s highest policy-making committee.

In context

USHANKA SHOW4:57
in 1990 he became a member of politburo
Leonid Kravchuk, The Communist That Became The President Of Independent Ukraine #ukraine

More examples

  • She is the youngest member of the party's politburo.
  • The politburo approves the party's new agricultural policy.
  • The two Communist parties have politburos of different sizes.

Forms

politburo · politburos

Similar words

committee
A broader term for a group assigned particular duties.
presidium
A standing governing committee, not exclusively within a Communist party.