POLITICAL UNIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does political unit mean? 

• POLITICAL UNIT (noun)
  The noun POLITICAL UNIT has 1 sense:

1. a unit with political responsibilities

  Familiarity information: POLITICAL UNIT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLITICAL UNIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A unit with political responsibilities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

political entity; political unit

Hypernyms ("political unit" is a kind of...):

social unit; unit (an organization regarded as part of a larger social group)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "political unit"):

advocacy group; lobby; lobby group; pressure group; special-interest group; special interest; special interest group; third house (an interest group that tries to influence legislators or bureaucrats to act in their favor, typically through lobbying)

body politic; commonwealth; country; land; nation; res publica; state (a politically organized body of people under a single government)

Holy Roman Empire (a political entity in Europe that began with the papal coronation of Otto I as the first emperor in 962 and lasted until 1806 when it was dissolved by Napoleon)

union (a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations)

Palestine Authority; Palestine National Authority; Palestinian National Authority (combines the Gaza Strip and the West Bank under a political unit with limited autonomy and a police force; created in 1993 by an agreement between Israel and the PLO)

cadre; cell (a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement)

amphictyony (an association of neighboring states or tribes in ancient Greece; established originally to defend a common religious center)

lunatic fringe (a political unit with extreme and fanatical views)

revolutionary group (a political unit organized to promote revolution)

Holonyms ("political unit" is a member of...):

form of government; political system (the members of a social organization who are in power)

 Context examples 

A political unit, such as a city, town, or village, incorporated for local self-government.

(Municipality, NCI Thesaurus)