Meanings
adjectivepower-political (comparative more power-political, superlative most power-political)
comparative more power-political · superlative most power-political
- Pertaining to power politics.First known use 20th c.
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.
2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 142
Origin
From power + political, after power politics.
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