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wonkRefers to someone who studies a subject in great depth. It often refers to technical disciplines such as computers and science and is thus synonymous with "geek." However, a "policy wonk" is a person who is deeply involved in government programs and related details. See geek. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Finally, if you're a policy wonk looking to study how ideas like school vouchers, standardized testing, and privatization play out in the real world, this book will provide many examples. Meanwhile, a policy wonk to his marrow, Angelides crammed his answers with statistics and pitched new proposals. Gingrich is not the only influential policy wonk to be casting the Lebanon flare-up in apocalyptic terms and rattling the sabers. |
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