Social relations involving authority or power

• Art of government
• Risky dinner party topic
• Controversial subject
• The profession devoted to governing and to political affairs

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
politics was a journal founded and edited by Dwight Macdonald from 1944 to 1949. Macdonald had previously been editor at Partisan Review from 1937 to 1943, but after falling out with its publishers, quit to start politics as a rival publication, first on ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Politics \Pol"i*tics\, n. [Cf. F. politique, Gr. ? (sc.?). See Politic .] The science of government; that part of ethics which has to do with the regulation and government of a nation or state, the preservation of its safety, peace, and prosperity, the ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. social relations involving authority or power [syn: political relation ] the study of government of states and other political units [syn: political science , government ] the profession devoted to governing and to political affairs the opinion you hold ...