ADJECTIVE (3)

1. involving or characteristic of politics or parties or politicians;
- Example: "calling a meeting is a political act in itself"- Daniel Goleman
- Example: "political pressure"
- Example: "a political machine"
- Example: "political office"
- Example: "political policy"

2. of or relating to your views about social relationships involving authority or power;
- Example: "political opinions"

3. of or relating to the profession of governing;
- Example: "political career"

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Political \Po*lit"i*cal\, a.
   1. Having, or conforming to, a settled system of
      administration. [R.] "A political government." --Evelyn.
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   2. Of or pertaining to public policy, or to politics;
      relating to affairs of state or administration; as, a
      political writer. "The political state of Europe."
      --Paley.
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   3. Of or pertaining to a party, or to parties, in the state;
      as, his political relations were with the Whigs.
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   4. Politic; wise; also, artful. [Obs.] --Sterne.
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   Political economy, that branch of political science or
      philosophy which treats of the sources, and methods of
      production and preservation, of the material wealth and
      prosperity of nations.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

political
    adj 1: involving or characteristic of politics or parties or
           politicians; "calling a meeting is a political act in
           itself"- Daniel Goleman; "political pressure"; "a
           political machine"; "political office"; "political
           policy" [ant: nonpolitical]
    2: of or relating to your views about social relationships
       involving authority or power; "political opinions"
    3: of or relating to the profession of governing; "political
       career"

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

60 Moby Thesaurus words for "political":
   absolute, administrative, aristocratic, authoritarian, autocratic,
   autonomous, bureaucratic, civic, civil, constitutional, democratic,
   despotic, dictatorial, diplomatic, factional, factious, fascist,
   federal, federalist, federalistic, geopolitical, governmental,
   gubernatorial, heteronomous, matriarchal, matriarchic, monarchal,
   monarchial, monarchic, monocratic, national, official, oligarchal,
   oligarchic, parliamentarian, parliamentary, partisan, patriarchal,
   patriarchic, pluralistic, politic, politico-commercial,
   politico-diplomatic, politico-economic, politico-geographical,
   politico-judicial, politico-military, politico-moral,
   politico-religious, politico-scientific, politico-social,
   politico-theological, public, republican, self-governing, state,
   statesmanlike, suffragist, theocratic, totalitarian



Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

POLITICAL. Pertaining to policy, or the administration of the government.
Political rights are those which may be exercised in the formation or
administration of the government they are distinguished from civil, rights,
which are the rights which a man enjoys, as regards other individuals, and
not in relation to the government. A political corporation is one which has
principally for its object the administration of the government, or to which
the powers of government, or a part of such powers, have been delegated. 1
Bouv. Inst. n. 182, 197, 198.