Usually means: Strategizing for power, often manipulatively.
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  1. politicking: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. politicking: Merriam-Webster
  3. politicking: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. politicking: Collins English Dictionary
  5. politicking: Vocabulary.com
  6. Politicking, politicking: Wordnik
  7. politicking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. politicking: Wiktionary
  9. politicking: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. politicking: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. politicking: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. politicking: Dictionary.com
  13. Politicking: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. politicking: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. politicking: Legal dictionary

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  1. Politicking: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (often derogatory) The act of engaging in politics, or in political campaigning.

Similar:
politization, politicisation, politicization, politicalization, politic, politicism, politicomania, political marketing, politicalism, apoliticism, more...

Opposite:
apolitical, nonpartisan, unbiased, neutral

Types:
campaigning, lobbying, rallying, buttonholing, stumping, more...

Adjectives:
internal, much, such, intense, petty, little, partisan, local, active, presidential, shrewd

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Similar:
politization, politicisation, politicization, politicalization, politic, politicism, politicomania, political marketing, politicalism, apoliticism, more...

Opposite:
apolitical, nonpartisan, unbiased, neutral

Types:
campaigning, lobbying, rallying, buttonholing, stumping, more...

Adjectives:
internal, much, such, intense, petty, little, partisan, local, active, presidential, shrewd

Colors:
    red,     blue,     white,     green,     yellow, more...



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