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Politics   /pˈɑlətˌɪks/   Listen
Politics

noun
1.
Social relations involving intrigue to gain authority or power.  Synonym: political relation.
2.
The study of government of states and other political units.  Synonyms: government, political science.
3.
The profession devoted to governing and to political affairs.
4.
The opinion you hold with respect to political questions.  Synonym: political sympathies.
5.
The activities and affairs involved in managing a state or a government.  "Government agencies multiplied beyond the control of representative politics"



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"Politics" Quotes from Famous Books



... It is twenty years since I sailed to this colony, and from that day I have not returned to Atlantis once. I know little of the old country's politics. What small parcel of news drifts out to us across the ocean, reads with slender interest here. Yucatan is another world, my dear Tatho, as you in the course of your government will learn, with new interests, new ...
— The Lost Continent • C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
... of allowing these people to become some day joint arbiters with ourselves of the national destinies; bad policy to abandon the principles of Washington's Farewell Address, to which we have adhered for a century, and involve ourselves in the Eastern question, or in the entanglements of European politics. ...
— Problems of Expansion - As Considered In Papers and Addresses • Whitelaw Reid
... sacrificed their property to their politics, were generally poor, and had to work hard and suffer many privations before they could reap crops to support their families. In those early days there were no merchants, no bakeries, no butchers' shop's, ...
— Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. - A Drama. And Other Poems. • Sarah Anne Curzon
... of Commencement Day. The old church on the green, which had rung for many consecutive hours with the eloquence of slim young gentlemen in evening dress, exhorting the Scholar in Politics or denouncing the Gross Materialism of the Age, was at last empty and still. As it drew the dewy shadows softly about its eaves and filled its rasped interior with soothing darkness, it bore a whimsical likeness to some aged horse which, having been pestered all day with flies, was now feeding ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 • Various
... under its Norman bishops, foreign officials trained in the King's chapel, was no longer a united national force, as it had been in the time of the Saxon kings. The mass of the people was of no account in politics. The trading class scarcely as yet existed. The villeins tied to the soil of the manor on which they had been born, and shut out from all courts save those of their lord; inhabitants of the little hamlets that lay along the river-courses in clearings among dense woods, ...
— Henry the Second • Mrs. J. R. Green


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