political : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: political	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for political
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
political adj involving or characteristic of politics or parties or politicians; "calling a meeting is a political act in itself"- Daniel Goleman; "political pressure"; "a political machine"; "political office"; "political policy" Antonym(s): nonpolitical of or relating to your views about social relationships involving authority or power; "political opinions" of or relating to the profession of governing; "political career"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Political \Polit"ical\, a. 1. Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration. [R.] [bd]A political government.[b8] --Evelyn. 2. Of or pertaining to public policy, or to politics; relating to affairs of state or administration; as, a political writer. [bd]The political state of Europe.[b8] --Paley. 3. Of or pertaining to a party, or to parties, in the state; as, his political relations were with the Whigs. 4. Politic; wise; also, artful. [Obs.] --Sterne. {Political economy}, that branch of political science or philosophy which treats of the sources, and methods of production and preservation, of the material wealth and prosperity of nations.