# politics
## English
### Etymology

From the adjective politic, by analogy with Aristotle’s τά πολῑτῐκᾱ́ (tá polītĭkā́, “affairs of state”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpɒl.ɪ.tɪks/, /ˈpɒl.ə.tɪks/
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* (General American) IPA: /ˈpɑ.lɪˌtɪks/, /ˈpɑ.ləˌtɪks/
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* Hyphenation: pol‧i‧tics
* Rhymes: -ɪks

### Noun

politics (countable and uncountable, plural politics)
* (countable) A methodology and activities associated with running a government, an organization, or a movement.
** 1996, Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A feminist international politics, page ix-x:There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). [...] They are in shifting alliance or contest with postmodern critiques, which at times seem to threaten the very category 'women' and its possibilities for a feminist politics.
* (countable) The profession of conducting political affairs.
    He made a career out of politics.
* (treated as a plural noun) One's political stands and opinions.
    Their politics are clear from the bumper stickers on their cars.
* (uncountable) Political maneuvers or diplomacy between people, groups, or organizations, especially involving power, standing, influence or conflict.
** 1999, George Lucas, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, spoken by Senator Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid):There is no stability; only politics. The Republic is not what it once was. The Senate is full of greedy, squabbling delegates. There is no interest in the common good.
* (in the singular, informal) Real-world beliefs and social issues irrelevant to the topic at hand.
    We're trying to talk about comic books, don't mention politics.

### Verb

politics
* third-person singular simple present indicative of politic

#### Derived terms

* aeropolitics
* agri-politics
* all politics are local
* all politics is local
* antipolitics
* astropolitics
* a week is a long time in politics
* biopolitics
* bolitics
* cosmopolitics
* cyberpolitics
* dog whistle politics
* dog-whistle politics
* domopolitics
* econopolitics
* ecopolitics
* ethnopolitics
* Europolitics
* exopolitics
* genopolitics
* geopolitics
* gesture politics
* high politics
* identity politics
* infrapolitics
* low politics
* machine politics
* macropolitics
* megapolitics
* metapolitics
* micropolitics
* narcopolitics
* necropolitics
* neuropolitics
* office politics
* ostrich politics
* palace-politics
* palace politics
* parapolitics
* parish pump politics
* party politics
* petropolitics
* play politics
* politard
* politic
* political
* politician
* politicize
* politics of envy
* politologist
* politology
* politonym
* politrickery
* politricks
* power politics
* psychopolitics
* respectability politics
* retail politics
* rubber stamp politics
* schizopolitics
* sexual politics
* sociopolitics
* superpolitics
* technopolitics
* telepolitics
* wedge politics

#### Related terms

* police
* policy
* polity

#### Translations
### Further reading

* “politics”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “politics”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* colpitis, psilotic