Politics vs Domestic - What's the difference?
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(countable) A methodology and activities associated with running a government, an organization, or a movement.
* 1996 , Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A feminist international politics , pages ix-x:
(countable) The profession of conducting political affairs.
(countable) One's political stands and opinions.
(uncountable) Political maneuvers or diplomacy between people, groups, or organizations, especially involving power, influence or conflict.
Of or relating to the home.
* 1994 , George Whitmore, Getting Rid of Robert'' in ''Violet Quill :
Of or relating to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually occur.
(of an animal) Kept by someone, for example as a farm animal or a pet.
* 1890 , US Bureau of Animal Industry, Annual report v 6/7, 1889/90
Internal to a specific country.
* 1996', Robert O. Keohane, Helen V. Milner, ''Internationalization and '''Domestic Politics :
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, title= A house servant; a maid; a household worker.
* Mary Romero, Maid in the U.S.A. - New standards of cleanliness increased the workload for domestic s.
A domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent
* 2005:' Bellingham-Whatcom County Commission Against Domestic Violence, ''Domestic Violence in Whatcom County'' (read on the Whatcom County website at on 20 May 2006) - The number of “verbal ' domestic s” (where law enforcement determines that no assault has occurred and where no arrest is made), decreased significantly.
As adjectives the difference between politics and domestic
is that politics is while domestic is of or relating to the home.As a noun domestic is
a house servant; a maid; a household worker.politics
English
(wikipedia politics)Noun
- There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). [...] They are in shifting alliance or contest with postmodern critiques, which at times seem to threaten the very category 'women' and its possibilities for a feminist politics .
- ''He made a career out of politics .
- Their politics are clear from the bumper stickers on their cars.
- There's too much politics in this organization.
Derived terms
* geopolitics * necropolitics * palace politics * petropolitics * politic * political * politician * politicize * sexual politics * wedge politicsExternal links
* * English pluralia tantumdomestic
English
(wikipedia domestic)Alternative forms
* domestick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- “Dan’s not as domestic as you," I commented rather nastily.
- It shall be the duty of any owner or person in charge of any domestic animal or animals.
- The proportion of international economic flows relative to domestic ones.
Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}