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handlanger
/ˈhændˌlæŋə/
noun 4
Collocations
3ADJ.
necessary, political
HANDLANGER + NOUN
soldier, toddler
ADV.
only
Definitions
noun
1
An unskilled assistant to an artisan.
[…] building himself brick by brick, with his wife as his only handlanger.
2
An aide, an assistant.
[E]very political leader has a handlanger. Like a toddler with a security blanket, the political handlanger is a necessary sop and sponge for all the tension that goes with the job. And there is nothing either disreputable or degrading about the role. Politics can be spiteful and demanding; the handlanger is the trusted confidant, the one person whom the leader can sound out, seek counsel from and trust.
The time for talk truly is over now. The ANC will have to do the necessary, find its backbone and rein in [Jacob] Zuma, his cronies and their handlangers to avert an economic crisis happening on its watch.
3
Alternative letter-case form of Handlanger.
noun
1
A low-ranking artillery soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army.
Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, by His Majeſty's Command, preſented to the Houſe, Copy of a Convention between the King of Great Britain and the States General, on the one Part; and the Empreſs Queen of Hungary and Bohemia on the other— […] Artillery. […] 12 Gunners, or Handlangers. […] 2 Drummers, at the Pay of Handlangers. […] 4 Aſſiſtants, at the Pay of Handlangers.
The Handlanger soldier was not a gunner or a bombardier, since he merely acted as labour on gun-sites […]
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[…] building himself brick by brick, with his wife as his only handlanger.
Wiktionary02
[E]very political leader has a handlanger. Like a toddler with a security blanket, the political handlanger is a necessary sop and sponge for all the tension that goes with the job. And there is nothi
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The time for talk truly is over now. The ANC will have to do the necessary, find its backbone and rein in [Jacob] Zuma, his cronies and their handlangers to avert an economic crisis happening on its w
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Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, by His Majeſty's Command, preſented to the Houſe, Copy of a Convention between the King of Great Britain and the States General, on the one Part; and the Empreſs Queen
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The Handlanger soldier was not a gunner or a bombardier, since he merely acted as labour on gun-sites […]
Wiktionary06
After the defeat of 1809, the four artillery regiments were kept in existence, but the Handlanger-Corps was reduced to a cadre.
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