political
IPA: pʌɫˈɪtʌkʌɫ
noun
- A political agent or officer.
- A publication focusing on politics.
adjective
- Concerning or relating to politics, the art and process of governing.
- Concerning a polity or its administrative components.
- (derogatory) Motivated, especially inappropriately, by political (electoral; or, more generally, power, standing, influence or conflict) calculation.
- Of or relating to views about social relationships that involve power, standing, influence or conflict.
- (of a person) Interested in politics.
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Examples of "political" in Sentences
- Nothing political -- nothing _political_! "he exclaimed.
- The political organization system of the Christians is communism.
- The political adage states that politics stops at the water's edge.
- The political crisis is about the accountability of political power.
- FDRbyGodDemocrat: Did Karl Rove just use the term "political minions"?
- But governments do a lot of things out of ignorance or political expedience.
- The party promoted a dialogue with the government to foster political pluralism.
- Political analysts and commentators are predicting a tense political atmosphere.
- For some, the label "political activist" seems too technical to describe how they're learning to balance being Muslim wives and mothers along with their desire to shape Egypt's future.
- With regard to the political and metaphysical parts, I am afraid I can alter nothing; but I have high authority for my errors in that point, for even the _Æneid_ was a _political_ poem, and written for
- The * political* reality (as Dean well knows, and the media and bloggers should point out) is that as electeds and political animals (though, it must be said, fearful ones it appears) supers are very, very, very unlikely to overturn the leader in pledged delegates.
- I answer, it has nothing to do with my Memoirs, as I was not in London during the whole of the row; but I shall by and by show, that it had a great deal more to do with political matters, or rather with a _political party, _ than was at the time imagined, or than is even now suspected.
- If he predicted a revolutionary crisis, it was to come from a life-and-death struggle of the working people in self-defense, in a desperate effort to protect economic and political rights, but especially _political_ rights, which, as the labor unionist, von Elm, said at this congress, were "the key to all."
- Promoted to Headline (H3) on 4/10/09: Dear President Obama, 3 federal judges say you must act to end 'political purgatory' for 23 million yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Dear President Obama, 3 federal judges say you must act to end \'political purgatory\' for 23 million '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: The District of Columbia U.S.
- The fundamental principle of our political fabric, the _political_ equality of all men, has afforded ample opportunity for designing persons to mislead the uninformed among the mass, and to make them believe that _political_ equality means social, intellectual, and moral equality, that all are in fact equal in all respects in society, and that their rights are infringed by their exclusion from such recognition.