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say it: PAH-luh-tiks
politics is a noun meaning "social relations involving intrigue to gain authority or power". It carries 5 recorded senses.
social relations involving intrigue to gain authority or power
“office politics is often counterproductive”
the study of government of states and other political units
government
the opinion you hold with respect to political questions
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for politics come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.