N-COUNT [usually plural]禄虫（指利用职权谋求私利或报答任命的官员） If you refer to a public official as a placeman, you disapprove of the fact that they use their position for their own personal benefit or to provide political support for those who appointed them. 禄虫（指利用职权谋求私利或报答任命的官员） [British, disapproval]
...the party's programme to purify the Commons by the removal of placemen.