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power-political

UK/ˌpaʊəpəˈlɪtɪkl̩/US/ˌpaʊɚpəˈlɪtɪkl̩/

power-political adjective: pertaining to power politics.

Adjective

power-political (comparative more power-political, superlative most power-political)

  1. Pertaining to power politics.
    • It should be noted that even modest German efforts to overleap the power-political constraints on imperial expansion met with sturdy resistance form the established world powers.2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 142

Forms of power-political

comparativemore power-political
superlativemost power-political

Origin of power-political

From power + political, after power politics.

Questions about power-political

What does power-political mean?
Power-political means pertaining to power politics.
What part of speech is power-political?
Power-political is an adjective.
How do you pronounce power-political?
Power-political is pronounced /ˌpaʊəpəˈlɪtɪkl̩/ (UK).

Words near power-political in the dictionary

  1. power-lines
  2. power-operate
  3. power-operated
  4. power-play
  5. power-plays
  6. power-political
  7. power-sharing
  8. power-trip
  9. power-tripped
  10. power-tripper
  11. power-tripping

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