political will
noun
Political intention or desire (in early use not as a fixed collocation); (later) specifically the firm intention or commitment on the part of a government to carry through a policy, especially one which is not immediately successful or popular.
Origin
Late 18th century; earliest use found in The Times.
- resistance welding
- resistance wire
- resistancy
- resistant
- resistantly
- resist-dyed
- resistence
- resistency
- resistentialism
- resistentialist
- resister
- resistful
- resistibility
- resistible
- resistive
- resistive heating
- resistively
- resistiveness
- resistivity
- resistivity profile
- resistivity survey
- resistivity surveying
- resistless
- resistlessly
- resistment