Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

political arithmetic

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.39 in modern English

Syllables: po-lit-i-cal arith-metic
IPA

30

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The demographic statistics of a country or state.

Archaic; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations."
"The most basic effect of political arithmetic was namely to establish that a nation's strength depended above all on the number of inhabitants [...]."

Usage

Questions

What does political arithmetic mean?: The demographic statistics of a country or state.

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