Risky first-date topic

• Risky dinner party topic
• Word after "office" or "playing"
• Part of the office rat race
• The study of government of states and other political units
• Science of "how who gets what"

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 ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Politics is a work of political philosophy by Aristotle , a 4th-century BC Greek philosopher. The end of the Nicomachean Ethics declared that the inquiry into ethics necessarily follows into politics, and the two works are frequently considered to be parts ...

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 ...