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retail politics in British Englishnoun(functioning as plural) informal the practice of a politician soliciting in person for votes from the public Examples of 'retail politics' in a sentenceretail politics These overt transactions are retail politics in the raw, putting substance into the more questionable theme of the longterm economic plan succeeding.She has been a better candidate in the skills of one-to-one retail politics than most predicted.Up to now the candidates have been engaged in 'retail' politics, where they can meet voters in diners or front rooms.He has difficulty with the retail politics — the one-on-one encounters with voters — that help to decide the early frontrunner.In days gone by, it would have been a completely trivial piece of base retail politics, and instantly forgotten. |