placeman
C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
A person appointed to a public post as a reward for loyalty rather than for merit.
The committee was packed with placemen who could be relied upon to endorse whatever the minister proposed.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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