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Pakistan's future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.
Benazir Bhutto

Meaning of "political" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF POLITICAL

political  [pəˈlɪtɪkəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POLITICAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Political is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES POLITICAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Politics

Politics is the practice and theory of influencing other people on a civic or individual level. More narrowly, it refers to achieving and exercising positions of governance — organized control over a human community, particularly a state. A variety of methods are employed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other political subjects, making laws, and exercising force, including warfare against adversaries. Politics is exercised on a wide range of social levels, from clans and tribes of traditional societies, through modern local governments, companies and institutions up to sovereign states, to the international level. A political system is a framework which defines acceptable political methods within a given society. History of political thought can be traced back to early antiquity, with seminal works such as Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Politics and the works of Confucius. Modern political discourse focuses on democracy and the relationship between people and politics. It is thought of as the way people choose government officials and make decisions about public policy.

Definition of political in the English dictionary

The first definition of political in the dictionary is of or relating to the state, government, the body politic, public administration, policy-making, etc. Other definition of political is of, involved in, or relating to government policy-making as distinguished from administration or law. Political is also of or relating to the civil aspects of government as distinguished from the military.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POLITICAL


analytical
ˌænəˈlɪtɪkəl
antipolitical
ˌæntɪpəˈlɪtɪkəl
apolitical
ˌeɪpəˈlɪtɪkəl
catalytical
ˌkætəˈlɪtɪkəl
cosmopolitical
ˌkɒzməpəˈlɪtɪkəl
critical
ˈkrɪtɪkəl
cryptanalytical
ˌkrɪptænəˈlɪtɪkəl
diacritical
ˌdaɪəˈkrɪtɪkəl
electroanalytical
ɪˌlektrəʊˌænəˈlɪtɪkəl
geopolitical
ˌdʒiːəʊpəˈlɪtɪkəl
metapolitical
ˌmɛtəpəˈlɪtɪkəl
metropolitical
ˌmetrəʊpəˈlɪtɪkəl
microanalytical
ˌmaɪkrəʊˌænəˈlɪtɪkəl
nonpolitical
ˌnɒnpəˈlɪtɪkəl
overanalytical
ˌəʊvərˌænəˈlɪtɪkəl
psychoanalytical
ˌsaɪkəʊˌænəˈlɪtɪkəl
semipolitical
ˌsemɪpəˈlɪtɪkəl
sociopolitical
ˌsəʊsɪəʊpəˈlɪtɪkəl
unanalytical
ˌʌnˌænəˈlɪtɪkəl
unpolitical
ˌʌnpəˈlɪtɪkəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POLITICAL

politic
political action committee
political asylum
political commissar
political convention
political correctness
political economy
political football
political geography
political incorrectness
political party
political prisoner
political science
political scientist
politicalise
politicalize
politically
politically correct
politically incorrect
politically motivated

WORDS THAT END LIKE POLITICAL

aeronautical
alphabetical
chemical
cortical
elliptical
grammatical
hypothetical
identical
impractical
mathematical
metical
mystical
nautical
optical
pharmaceutical
practical
skeptical
statistical
tactical
theoretical
vertical

Synonyms and antonyms of political in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «POLITICAL»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «political» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of political

Translation of «political» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POLITICAL

Find out the translation of political to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of political from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «political» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

政治的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

político
570 millions of speakers

English

political
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

राजनीतिक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سِيَّاسِيّ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

политический
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

político
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

রাজনৈতিক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

politique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Politik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

politisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

政治の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

정치적인
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Politik
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chính trị
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அரசியல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

राजनैतिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

politik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

politico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

polityczny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

політичний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

politic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πολιτικός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

politieke
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

politisk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

politisk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of political

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POLITICAL»

The term «political» is very widely used and occupies the 3.535 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POLITICAL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about political

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10 QUOTES WITH «POLITICAL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word political.
1
Tony Abbott
Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.
2
Gianni Agnelli
Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.
3
Ibrahim Babangida
There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the process of reforming the political economy and improving the quality of life of our people and communities.
4
Fredrik Bajer
A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace.
5
Benazir Bhutto
Pakistan's future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.
6
Omar Bongo
The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.
7
Beth Brooke
Sponsorship involves putting your own political capital at risk, so they are going to help that person to succeed. Women get promoted; they don't get sponsored. Women know they are on their own if they get that promotion.
8
Howard Warren Buffett
When I was 5, my father was very much my hero. And he ran for political office in a very thankless campaign for a very thankless position. And he did it because his mother had instilled in him, if you are someone who has the capacity to make a great change, you have the responsibility.
9
William S. Burroughs
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
10
Frank Carlucci
Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place, efforts to broaden the political participation of the populations of the region.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POLITICAL»

Discover the use of political in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to political and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Safire's Political Dictionary
Featuring more than one thousand new, rewritten, and updated entries, this reference on American politics explains current terms in politics, economics, and diplomacy.
William Safire, 2008
2
Political Machines: Governing a Technological Society
At the same time, contemporary radical politics has come to raise questions about the political preoccupation with technical progress, while also developing a certain degree of technical sophistication itself.In a series of in-depth ...
Andrew Barry, 2001
3
Political Liberalism: Expanded Edition
This book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in A Theory of Justice but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way.
John Rawls, 2013
4
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the ...
The first of a major two-volume work, The Origins of Political Order begins with politics among our primate ancestors and follows the story through the emergence of tribal societies, the growth of the first modern state in China, the ...
Francis Fukuyama, 2011
5
Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?
This book fills that need. Here, Philip E. Tetlock explores what constitutes good judgment in predicting future events, and looks at why experts are often wrong in their forecasts.
Philip E. Tetlock, 2006
6
The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your ...
The Political Mind is a passionate, erudite, and groundbreaking book that will appeal to anyone interested in how the mind works and how we function socially and politically.
George Lakoff, 2008
7
Walter Rodney's Intellectual and Political Thought
Placing Rodney's work in the larger tradition of West Indian involvement with continental Africa, Walter Rodney's Intellectual and Political Thought traces the evolution of Walter Rodney's political ideas through biography, analysis of his ...
Rupert Lewis, 1998
8
Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
Written in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic, Political Theology develops the distinctive theory of sovereignty that made Carl Schmitt one of the most significant and controversial ...
Carl Schmitt, George Schwab, 1985
9
Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things
In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves.
Jane Bennett, 2009
10
An Introduction to Political Thought: A Conceptual Toolkit
New for this edition OCo New chapter on international political thoughtThis textbook gives you all the vocabulary you need OCo political, conceptual and historical OCo to engage confidently and deeply with political thought and the moral ...
Peri Roberts, Peter Sutch, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POLITICAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term political is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Obama urges Ethiopia to end crackdown on political and press …
Despite Ethiopia's progress, there are deep concerns about political ... leaders about the need to allow political opponents to operate freely. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Should We Fear the Political 'Crazies'?
''What he did,'' he said of Trump, ''was he fired up the crazies.'' In the annals of political deprecation, McCain's charge of rallying the ''crazies'' ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
3
Chinese Repression Threatens Economic Dynamism and Political
Repression also stultifies China's political evolution to a more mature and stable political order. Democracy provides an important safety valve ... «Cato Institute, Jul 15»
4
Koch Brothers' political group struggles in Alaska
But the same independent spirit that defines Alaskans also makes them bristle at attempts by outsiders to shape their thinking, political analysts ... «Reuters, Jul 15»
5
Coalition rules out Labor's proposed changes to political donation …
Currently, political parties are obliged to disclose donations of more ... the two major parties often discussed changes to the political system. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
6
Europe's Growing Desire for Political Union
Now that Italian Finance Minister Pier Carlo Padoan has joined calls to create a political union, parliament and budget for the euro zone, ... «Bloomberg View, Jul 15»
7
Brazilian prosecutors take step closer to political elite
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil's firebrand former president, told a weekend meeting of trade unionists that the country's political left was ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
8
Will Iran Deal Expose Jewish Political Impotence?
Israeli opposition to the deal runs across the entire political spectrum with the exception of the Arab parties. But whatever transpires with the ... «New York Observer, Jul 15»
9
Commission report on poll rigging way forward for political stability: PM
Chairing a high-level consultative meeting with cabinet members and the political leadership of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz on ... «The Express Tribune, Jul 15»
10
Daniel Andrews' big secret – who paid for Labor's election success
The weakness of Australian political donation regulation begins at the national level. It has been especially problematic since the Howard ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»

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