1 connected with the state, government or public affairs:
a monarch without political power * He was a political prisoner (= one who was imprisoned because he was thought to be harmful to the state).
2 connected with the different groups working in politics, especially their policies and the competition between them:
a political debate / party / leader * What are your political sympathies?
3 (of people) interested in or active in politics:
She became very political at university. * I'm not a political animal (= person).
4 concerned with power, status, etc. within an organization, rather than with matters of principle:
I suspect that he was dismissed for political reasons.
seealsoPOLITICALLY
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for political is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is political a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, political is tagged as adjective.
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