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noun (used with a singular or plural verb)
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the practice or profession of conducting political affairs.
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political affairs: The advocated reforms have become embroiled in politics.
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political methods or maneuvers: We could not approve of his politics in winning passage of the bill.
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use of intrigue or strategy in obtaining any position of power or control, as in business, university, etc.
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COLLAPSE(initial capital letter, italics) a treatise (4th century b.c.) by Aristotle, dealing with the structure, organization, and administration of the state, especially the city-state as known in ancient Greece.
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play politics,
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to engage in political intrigue, take advantage of a political situation or issue, resort to partisan politics, etc.; exploit a political system or political relationships.
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to deal with people in an opportunistic, manipulative, or devious way, as for job advancement.
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Word Origin & History
politics
1520s, "science of government," from politic (adj.), modeled on Aristotle's ta politika "affairs of state," the name of his book on governing and governments, which was in English mid-15c. as "Polettiques." Also see -ics.
EXPAND"Politicks is the science of good sense, applied to public affairs, and, as those are forever changing, what is wisdom to-day would be folly and perhaps, ruin to-morrow. Politicks is not a science so properly as a business. It cannot have fixed principles, from which a wise man would never swerve, unless the inconstancy of men's view of interest and the capriciousness of the tempers could be fixed." [Fisher Ames (17581808)]Meaning "a person's political allegiances or opinions" is from 1769.
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Idioms & Phrases
play politics
Act for personal or political gain rather than principle, as in I don't think this judge is fair
he's playing politics. [Mid-1800s]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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