Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of a ring or band of persons uniting for personal or selfish ends. See
ring , n., 7.
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- noun Member of a (political or economic)
ring
Etymologies
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Derived from ring + -ster.
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Examples
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The chief ringster was William M. Tweed, and his name will always be associated in the public mind with political bossdom.
The Boss and the Machine; a chronicle of the politicians and party organization Samuel Peter Orth 1897
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"graft," as the present-day political ringster defines it.
The old South, 1904
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