political relation

1. 1.

   social relations involving intrigue to gain authority or power

   “office politics is often counterproductive”

   Synonymspolitics

   Broadersocial relation

Questions about political relation

What does political relation mean?

political relation means "social relations involving intrigue to gain authority or power".

What is another word for political relation?

Close synonyms include politics. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is political relation a common word?

political relation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.