power-political
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From power + political, after power politics.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌpaʊəpəˈlɪtɪkl̩/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌpaʊɚpəˈlɪtɪkl̩/
Adjective[edit]
power-political (comparative more power-political, superlative most power-political)
- Pertaining to power politics. [from 20th c.]
- 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 142:
- 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.