practical politics

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   politics based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations

   Synonymsrealpolitik

   Broaderpolitics

Questions about practical politics

What does practical politics mean?

practical politics means "politics based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations".

What is another word for practical politics?

Close synonyms include realpolitik. 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 practical politics a common word?

practical politics 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.