Politics

Noun

 * 1) The practice of responding to conflict with dialogue.
 * This issue should be solved with politics, not weapons.
 * 1) Set of policies relating to governmental and legal matters
 * I don’t like his politics.
 * 1) Campaigning or arguing for a set of policies, or maneuvering for power
 * I want to go into politics.
 * 1) The study of disputes between rival political factions.
 * Favoritism is the only use of politics. Richard L Kempe
 * 1) Political affairs of life, party politics, local politics.
 * He’s thinking of going into politics, e.g., trying to become a Member of Parliament.
 * 1) Political views or beliefs.
 * What are your politics?
 * 1) rivalry between political parties
 * They’re not concerned with welfare: it’s all politics!

Quotations

 * 1996, Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A feminist international politics, pages ix-x:
 * There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). [...] They are in shifting alliance or contest with postmodern critiques, which at times seem to threaten the very category 'women' and its possibilities for a feminist politics.

Derived terms

 * geopolitics
 * necropolitics
 * palace politics
 * petropolitics


 * politic
 * political
 * politician
 * politicize


 * sexual politics
 * wedge politics

Related terms

 * police


 * policy


 * polity

Adjectives for Politics
contemporary; inculcating; domestic; fundamental; partisan; sentimental; crooked; fading; corrupt; practical; economic; financial; moral; befuddled; stormy; puzzled.

Verbs for Politics
bury in—; dabble in—; delve in—; immerse in—; inveigh against—; meddle with—; muddle in—; participate in—; plunge into —; prostitute—; retire from—; shun—; steer clear of—; tangle with—; verse in—.

Thesaurus
Geopolitik, Machiavellianism, Machiavellism, civics, diplomacy, diplomatics, geopolitics, government, international relations, jobbery, jobbing, machination, manipulation, poli-sci, political behavior, political economy, political geography, political philosophy, political science, political theory, public administration, statecraft, statesmanship

Etymology
From the adjective politic, by analogy with Aristotle’s "τα πολιτικά" ('affairs of state').

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 * Mandarin: 政治 (zhèngzhì)
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 * Turkish:, siyaset
 * Urdu: (rāj-nīti),  (siyāsat)
 * Vietnamese: chính trị