Political vs Partisan - What's the difference?
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Concerning or relating to politics, the art and process of governing.
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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
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Concerning a polity or its administrative components.
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(label) Motivated, especially inappropriately, by political (electoral or other party political) calculation.
Of or relating to views about social relationships that involve power or authority.
(label) Interested in politics.
A political agent or officer.
* 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 265:
a publication centred around politics
An adherent to a party or faction.
* 1924 : ARISTOTLE. Metaphysics . Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Available at: . Book 1, Part 5.
A fervent, sometimes militant, supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea.
A member of a band of detached light, irregular troops acting behind occupying enemy lines in the ways of harassment or sabotage; a guerrilla fighter
The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.
Serving as commander or member of a body of detached light troops: as, a partisan officer or corps.
Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party; as, blinded by partisan zeal.
Devoted to or biased in support of a party, group, or cause: partisan politics.
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(historical) A spear with a triangular, double-edged blade.
(obsolete) A soldier armed with such a weapon.
As nouns the difference between political and partisan
is that political is a political agent or officer while partisan is partisan (member of a body of detached light troops).As an adjective political
is concerning or relating to politics, the art and process of governing.political
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Alternative forms
* politicall (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits, passage=In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.}}
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Synonyms
* politicAntonyms
* nonpolitical, non-politicalDerived terms
* politicality * politically * political agent * political animal * political arithmetic * political asylum * political economy * political football * politicalness * political party * political prisoner * party political * politically correct * sociopoliticalNoun
(en noun)- One such officer was Count Nikolai Ignatiev, a brilliant and ambitious political , who enjoyed the ear of the Tsar and burned to settle his country's scores with the British.
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(wikipedia partisan)Alternative forms
* partizanEtymology 1
From (etyl) partisan, from (etyl) . English from the mid-16th century. The sense of "guerilla fighter" is from c. 1690. The adjective in the military sense dates from the early 18th century, in the political sense since 1842.Noun
(en noun)- while Xenophanes, the first of these partisans of the One (for Parmenides is said to have been his pupil), gave no clear statement,
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=England will regard it as a measure of justice for Frank Lampard's disallowed goal against Germany in Bloemfontein at the 2010 World Cup - but it was also an illustration of how they rode their luck for long periods in front of a predictably partisan home crowd.}}
