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POLITICAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Involving or characteristic of politics or parties or politicians
Example:
political policy
Classified under:
Similar:
governmental (relating to or dealing with the affairs or structure of government or politics or the state)
policy-making (concerned with policy, not administration)
semipolitical (political in some (but not all) aspects)
Antonym:
nonpolitical (not political)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or relating to your views about social relationships involving authority or power
Example:
political opinions
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
politics (the opinion you hold with respect to political questions)
Derivation:
politics (the opinion you hold with respect to political questions)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Of or relating to the profession of governing
Example:
political career
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
politics (the profession devoted to governing and to political affairs)
Derivation:
politics (the profession devoted to governing and to political affairs)
Context examples:
By 2030, 14.5 million people will have end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) but only 5.4 million will receive the treatment they need, due to economic, social, and political factors.
(Managing diabetes key to lowering kidney disease, SciDev.Net)
Its power was used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country of those who were opposed to its views.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The term comprises individuals belonging to a large number of tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of them still enduring as political communities.
(Native American, NCI Thesaurus)
He said he expects no political turmoil between the neighboring Austria and Hungary over the sale.
(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)
The power of Treaty may yet prove a vast engine of enlargement, when the Monroe doctrine takes its true place as a political fable.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Some cross political boundaries, such as the Caspian Sea, which is shared by Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Azerbaijan.
(Ancient lakes: eyes into the past, and the future, National Science Foundation)
That Hal’s views on art, or the sort of society plays his mother’s brother wrote, should have anything to do with the chopping of a few sticks of firewood, passes comprehension; nevertheless the quarrel was as likely to tend in that direction as in the direction of Charles’s political prejudices.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
I saw he was going to marry her, for family, perhaps political reasons, because her rank and connections suited him; I felt he had not given her his love, and that her qualifications were ill adapted to win from him that treasure.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The science that deals with the world and its inhabitants; a description of the earth, or a portion of the earth, including its structure, features, products, political divisions, and the people by whom it is inhabited.
(Geography, NCI Thesaurus)
Upon my word, you may put it down to my weak nerves or not, but I believe there is some deep political intrigue going on around me, and that for some reason that passes my understanding my life is aimed at by the conspirators.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
