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# {{lb|en|countable}} The [[profession]] of conducting political affairs. |
# {{lb|en|countable}} The [[profession]] of conducting political affairs. |
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#: {{ux|en|He made a career out of '''politics'''.}} |
#: {{ux|en|He made a career out of '''politics'''.}} |
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# {{lb|en|plural}} One's political stands and opinions. |
# {{lb|en|in the plural}} One's political stands and opinions. |
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#: {{ux|en|Their '''politics''' are clear from the bumper stickers on their cars.}} |
#: {{ux|en|Their '''politics''' are clear from the bumper stickers on their cars.}} |
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# {{lb|en|uncountable}} Political maneuvers or [[diplomacy]] between people, groups, or organizations, especially involving power, influence or conflict. |
# {{lb|en|uncountable}} Political maneuvers or [[diplomacy]] between people, groups, or organizations, especially involving power, influence or conflict. |
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#* {{quote-av|en|actor={{w|Ian McDiarmid}}|role=Senator Palpatine|title={{w|Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace}}|writer={{w|George Lucas}}|year=1999|passage=There is no stability; only '''politics'''. The Republic is not what it once was. The Senate is full of greedy, squabbling delegates. There is no interest in the common good.}} |
#* {{quote-av|en|actor={{w|Ian McDiarmid}}|role=Senator Palpatine|title={{w|Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace}}|writer={{w|George Lucas}}|year=1999|passage=There is no stability; only '''politics'''. The Republic is not what it once was. The Senate is full of greedy, squabbling delegates. There is no interest in the common good.}} |
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# {{lb|en|singular|fandom}} Real-world beliefs and social issues irrelevant to the topic at hand. |
# {{lb|en|in the singular|fandom}} Real-world beliefs and social issues irrelevant to the topic at hand. |
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#: {{ux|en|We're trying to talk about comic books, don't mention politics.}} |
#: {{ux|en|We're trying to talk about comic books, don't mention politics.}} |
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Revision as of 18:13, 3 May 2022
See also: polítics
English
Etymology
From the adjective politic, by analogy with Aristotle’s τα πολιτικά (ta politiká, “affairs of state”).
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) Audio (UK): (file) - Hyphenation: pol‧i‧tics
Noun
politics (countable and uncountable, plural politics)
- (countable) A methodology and activities associated with running a government, an organization, or a movement.
- 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.
- 1996, Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A feminist international politics, pages ix-x:
- (countable) The profession of conducting political affairs.
- He made a career out of politics.
- (in the plural) One's political stands and opinions.
- Their politics are clear from the bumper stickers on their cars.
- (uncountable) Political maneuvers or diplomacy between people, groups, or organizations, especially involving power, influence or conflict.
- 1999, George Lucas, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, spoken by Senator Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid):
- There is no stability; only politics. The Republic is not what it once was. The Senate is full of greedy, squabbling delegates. There is no interest in the common good.
- (in the singular, fandom slang) Real-world beliefs and social issues irrelevant to the topic at hand.
- We're trying to talk about comic books, don't mention politics.
Verb
politics
- third-person singular simple present indicative of politic
Derived terms
Terms derived from politics
Related terms
Terms etymologically related to politics
Translations
a methodology and activities associated with running a government
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Further reading
- “politics”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “politics”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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