POLITICAL

[adjective]Political means relating to politics.The President met local political leaders last week.There are two political parties in the US - the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.Education is back at the top of the political agenda (= the matters that the government is considering).Political asylum is the protection given by a government to a foreign person who has left their own country because they disagree with their own government.The number of people seeking political asylum in Britain has risen dramatically.Political correctness is the quality of being politically correctPolitical correctness was intended to erase the discrimination that exists in language.A political prisoner is a person put in prison because they have expressed disapproval of their own government, or because they belong to an organization, race or social group not approved of by that government.Political science is the study of how people obtain or compete for power and how it is used in governing a country.