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> politically exposed persons

I do not know what this euphemism means. Is this like the modern trend of calling inmates “justice involved individuals”?

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its not some new/modern trend just because you have not seen the term. its been a term for nearly 3 decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politically_exposed_person

I mean today I am one of the 10,000 people learning this for the first time. But it does seem like an awkward term which seems to mean “high level government official who is likely to be corrupt” or just “politician”. Don’t really see the need for this wordplay to be honest.

Translate: People who are likely to be attacked by (Putin|Orban|Erdogan|Trump) or similar.

Apparently that’s not what Wikipedia defines it as. More like potentially shady high level government official.

Interesting, I've mostly heard it referring to individuals like Navalny or the mayor of Istanbul. I suppose it makes sense for it to refer to any random political critter.

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