politics

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The activities involved in governing a country or area, and the debate between groups who want power.

   Unemployment dominated the politics of those years.

2. 2
   noun

   A person's beliefs and opinions about how a country should be run.

   Their politics are clear from the stickers on their car.

3. 3
   noun

   The struggles for power and influence between people within an organization.

   She tried to stay out of office politics.

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Simplified etymology

Politics ultimately comes from Greek polis “city, state.” Its more immediate source is the title of Aristotle’s treatise ta politika, meaning “the affairs of state,” from which the English word developed.

From the adjective politic, by analogy with Aristotle’s τά πολῑτῐκᾱ́ (tá polītĭkā́, “affairs of state”).

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