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# political

«political» in Mova's school dictionary: **run and the people in power** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (political; more political, most political)

### meaning for a pupil

1) About government, how a country is run and the people in power. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/political/#m1)

2) About political parties and elections. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/political/#m2)

3) About power and arguments inside a group, like a school or a company. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/political/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history and citizenship lessons it describes leaders, parties, votes and laws. In the news it is everywhere: political party, political leader. In everyday talk «it's all political» means decisions are made for power, not fairness. Phrases: political party, political leader, political map (a map showing countries and borders, not mountains).

### examples

- The country has three main political parties. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/political/#x1)
- A political map shows countries and their borders. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/political/#x2)
- They had a political argument at dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/political/#x3)
- The mayor gave a political speech. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/political/#x4)
- Voting is a political right. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/political/#x5)
- Choosing the team captain became quite political. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/political/#x6)

### note

A political map is different from a physical map, which shows mountains and rivers. Noun: politics; person: politician. Political is not the same as polite.

### In the corpora

- ["Re-education" means forced political indoctrination: people are made to repeat and accept the government's ideas, often in camps.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/20/)
- [An "inoperative statement" is a US political phrase for a statement now admitted to be false.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/23/)
- [A political map shows countries, borders and cities, while a physical map shows natural features such as mountains, rivers and heights.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/1-maps-and-scale/12/)
- [A political party is a group with shared ideas that tries to win elections; its manifesto is its list of plans and promises.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/5/)
- [People who love each other can still vote differently, and big holidays often bring political arguments to the table.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «political» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/political/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.