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noun (used with a singular or plural verb)
Idiom2.
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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Politics
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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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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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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