Noun politics has 4 senses
- politics, political relation - social relations involving authority or power
--1 is a kind of social relation
- politics, political science, government - the study of government of states and other political units
--2 is a kind of social science
--2 has particulars: geopolitics; realpolitik, practical politics
- politics - the profession devoted to governing and to political affairs
--3 is a kind of profession
- politics, political sympathies - the opinion you hold with respect to political questions
--4 is a kind of opinion, sentiment, persuasion, view, thought
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