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Climate change should not fundamentally be seen as a political or partisan issue, but it has been turned into a political football primarily by the climate deniers who have a vested interested in maintaining the status quo. That includes certain industrial interests, financial interests and political interests.
James Balog

Meaning of "political football" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF POLITICAL FOOTBALL

political football  [pəˈlɪtɪkəl ˈfʊtˌbɔːl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POLITICAL FOOTBALL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Political football is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES POLITICAL FOOTBALL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Political football

A political football is a topic or issue that is seized on by opposing political parties or factions, and made a more political issue than it might initially seem to be. "To make a political football" is defined in William Safire's Safire's Political Dictionary as "To thrust a social, national security, or otherwise ostensibly non-political matter into partisan politics". In 1953 the gangster Lucky Luciano complained in an interview to Safire that "I been a political football". A less-used meaning, is a political issue that is continually debated but left unresolved. The term is often used during a political election campaign to highlight issues that have not been completely addressed, such as the natural environment and abortion.

Definition of political football in the English dictionary

The definition of political football in the dictionary is a political issue that is continually debated but has not yet been resolved.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POLITICAL FOOTBALL


baseball
ˈbeɪsˌbɔːl
basketball
ˈbɑːskɪtˌbɔːl
cannonball
ˈkænənˌbɔːl
eyeball
ˈaɪˌbɔːl
fastball
ˈfɑːstˌbɔːl
fireball
ˈfaɪəˌbɔːl
football
ˈfʊtˌbɔːl
handball
ˈhændˌbɔːl
meatball
ˈmiːtˌbɔːl
netball
ˈnɛtˌbɔːl
oddball
ˈɒdˌbɔːl
patball
ˈpætˌbɔːl
pinball
ˈpɪnˌbɔːl
puffball
ˈpʌfˌbɔːl
racquetball
ˈrækɪtˌbɔːl
snowball
ˈsnəʊˌbɔːl
softball
ˈsɒftˌbɔːl
spitball
ˈspɪtˌbɔːl
trackball
ˈtrækˌbɔːl
volleyball
ˈvɒlɪˌbɔːl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POLITICAL FOOTBALL

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE POLITICAL FOOTBALL

American football
association football
ball
Canadian football
crystal ball
eyeball to eyeball
eyeball-to-eyeball
fantasy football
five-a-side football
Gaelic football
golf ball
gumball
league football
on the ball
play-the-ball
rugby football
table football
total football
touch football
wrecking ball

Synonyms and antonyms of political football in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «political football» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POLITICAL FOOTBALL

Find out the translation of political football to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of political football 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 football» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

政治足球
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

fútbol político
570 millions of speakers

English

political football
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

राजनीतिक फुटबॉल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

كرة قدم سياسية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

политическая футбол
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

futebol político
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অর্থনীতি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

enjeu politique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

ekonomi politik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Spielball der Politik
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

政治サッカー
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

정치 축구
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Politik ekonomi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bóng đá chính trị
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அரசியல் பொருளாதாரம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

राजकीय अर्थव्यवस्था
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

politik ekonomi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

calcio politico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

polityczny futbol
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

політична футбол
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fotbal politic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πολιτικό ποδόσφαιρο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

politieke speelbal
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

politisk fotboll
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

politisk fotball
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of political football

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POLITICAL FOOTBALL»

The term «political football» is regularly used and occupies the 79.415 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POLITICAL FOOTBALL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «political football» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «political football» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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2 QUOTES WITH «POLITICAL FOOTBALL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word political football.
1
James Balog
Climate change should not fundamentally be seen as a political or partisan issue, but it has been turned into a political football primarily by the climate deniers who have a vested interested in maintaining the status quo. That includes certain industrial interests, financial interests and political interests.
2
Peter Welch
America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POLITICAL FOOTBALL»

Discover the use of political football in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to political football and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Political Football
Rance Gregory. dated June 1, 1996. The author dealt with the convoluted process of city zoning approval. Any proposed development would need to be approved by the city's planning department, but if the department proved to be an  ...
Rance Gregory, 2000
2
Political Football
Barry Flynn. POLITICAL. FOOTBALL. The Life 6?“ Death ofBelfizst Celtic BARRY FLYNN POLITICAL FOOTBALL POLITICAL FOOTBALL T HE L IFE &DEATH OF. Front Cover.
Barry Flynn, 2011
3
Safire's Political Dictionary
political football, to make a To thrust a social, national security, or otherwise ostensibly non-political matter into partisan politics. “Smart of the Belfast Free Press,” wrote the Bangor (Maine) Whig and Courier in 1857, “is laboring with all his ...
William Safire, 2008
4
Post-fandom and the Millennial Blues: The Transformation of ...
In 'The World Cup - a political football', Alan Clarke and Justin Wren-Lewis ( Clarke and Wren-Lewis, 1983: 123) further critically and provocatively developed the ideas of both the BFI study and Nowell-Smith (Eco's account, though written in ...
Steve Redhead, 1997
5
Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: The Oxford Dictionary of American ...
A collection of more than six hundred slang terms of American political speech encompasses informative entries on words such as "boondoggle," "juice bill," and "Joe Citizen," including both the definition of the word and its historical ...
Grant Barrett, 2004
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Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
politically /pa- 'lit.i.kli/ ® /-'lrt.a-/ adverb © to be politically naive ▻ idiom a political football a problem that politicians from different parties argue about and try to use in order to get an advantage for themselves: We don't want the immigration ...
‎2008
7
Fall-Out Shelters for the Human Spirit: American Art and the ...
A DELIGHTFUL POLITICAL FOOTBALL As the movement continued to build for government support of the arts, particularly assistance in the sending of American art overseas, Russell Lynes, assistant editor of Harper's Magazine, sounded a ...
Michael L. Krenn, 2005
8
Proceedings of The...consecutive And...biennial Convention
We can get as good traveling auditors through an election as through appointment, and there is no reason why we should not elect them. It has been said, and will be, I suppose, that we can make this question a political football. It has been ...
United Mine Workers of America, 1919
9
Proceedings of the ... Convention of the United Mine Workers ...
We can get as good traveling auditors through an election as through appointment, and there is no reason why we should not elect them. It has been said, and will be, I suppose, that we can make this question a political football. It has been ...
United Mine Workers of America, 1919
10
Political pamphlets
... that w ill remove the Veterans Adminis trati on a nd the Forgotten Men and Women disabled and Old Age Pensioners - 53 - CONGRESS POLITICAL FOOTBALL.
‎1888

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POLITICAL FOOTBALL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term political football is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Jury deliberates verdict in landmark Libor manipulation trial
... in the British case when he became angry over the transatlantic investigation and his perception that he had become a “political football”. «Financial Times, Jul 15»
2
AFL leaders have taken too long to denounce booing
The dance became a political football picked apart with no stand taken by the game's governing body. McLachlan said nothing that day, with ... «The Age, Jul 15»
3
Boy Scouts vote: Will ban on gay adult leaders be lifted?
Scouts should not be used as a political football on issues that can often be heated and divisive. The membership policy change would no ... «Christian Science Monitor, Jul 15»
4
Democrats announce slate for 2015 election
“It has become so political in Trumbull that Trumbull Day is a political football and the Trumbull Day Commission is being bypassed in the ... «Trumbull Times, Jul 15»
5
The new fight over superannuation
... go a whole lot further than was suggested and risks superannuation once again becoming a political football," he told the Financial Review. «The Australian Financial Review, Jul 15»
6
Shaun Milne: Welcome to Project Fear III - The Labour party …
... insisting that the Labour party actually OPPOSES the Tories? Whatever next? Stop using the poor and vulnerable as a political football? Bah! «CommonSpace, Jul 15»
7
Guest Shot: In defense of the Never Forgotten National Memorial
The Never Forgotten National Memorial should not be a political football to toss about to fit some individual's or group's agenda. Its purpose is ... «Cape Breton Post, Jul 15»
8
The new Alberta
... Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing and has written Sacred Trust or Political Football: A Citizen's Guide to Canadian ... «Troy Media, Jul 15»
9
INTERVIEW: Mac Maharaj's view on Mandela, Zuma and South Africa
... between the parties on this matter and I do not want my personal views arising from a confidential relationship to become a political football. «Naija247news, Jul 15»
10
I told Zuma to prepare to pay back the money: Maharaj
... between the parties on this matter and I do not want my personal views arising from a confidential relationship to become a political football.". «News24, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Political football [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/political-football>. Apr 2024 ».
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