Word after "office" or "playing"

• House work
• Science of "how who gets what"
• Risky first-date topic
• Field for a certain runner
• Controversial subject
• The study of government of states and other political units
• Risky dinner party topic

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 ...

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 ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, "science of government," from politic (adj.), modeled on Aristotle's ta politika "affairs of state," the name of his book on governing and governments, which was in English mid-15c. as "Polettiques." Also see -ics .Politicks is the science of good ...