politics

• n. 政治、政治学; 政治活動; 政治プログラム

politic、政治、-ics、学問。すなわち政治学、ひいては権力、権力のあり方。

politics

politics: [16] Politics is etymologically the art of ‘civil administration’. It is an English rendering of Greek tà polītiká ‘affairs of state’. Greek polītikós ‘of the city or state, civil, political’ was a derivative of polítēs ‘citizen’, which in turn came from pólis ‘city, state’ (source also of English police and policy and related to Sanskrit pūr ‘stronghold, fortified place’). It passed into English via Latin polīticus and Old French politique as politic [15], which originally meant ‘political’ as well as ‘judicious’ (political was coined in the 16th century).
=> cosmopolitan, metropolis, police, policy

politics (n.)

1520s, "science of government," from politic (adj.), modeled on Aristotle's ta politika "affairs of state," the name of his book on governing and governments, which was in English mid-15c. as "Polettiques." Also see -ics.

Politicks is the science of good sense, applied to public affairs, and, as those are forever changing, what is wisdom to-day would be folly and perhaps, ruin to-morrow. Politicks is not a science so properly as a business. It cannot have fixed principles, from which a wise man would never swerve, unless the inconstancy of men's view of interest and the capriciousness of the tempers could be fixed. [Fisher Ames (1758-1808)]

Meaning "a person's political allegiances or opinions" is from 1769.

1. He closed down the business and went into politics .

彼は会社を閉鎖して政治に身を投じた。

2.The film takes no position on the politics of Northern Ireland.

この映画は北アイルランドの政治問題でエッジを選択していない。

3.But that doesn 't mean this brand of politics is dead or dying.

しかし、それはこのような政治的主張がすでに消滅していることを意味するものではない。

4.Now politics is all about the right haircut and a sharp suit.

今の政界がこだわっているのは適切な髪型とモダンな服装にほかならない。

5.The Christian right has been steadily gaining ground in state politics .

キリスト教右翼組織は、国家政治においてますます幅広い支持を得ている。