political arithmetic

Noun

Meaning

political arithmetic (uncountable)

(now archaic or historical) The demographic statistics of a country or state. [from 17th c.]

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Examples

Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite, which dislocate all mathematical operations. Arthur Koestler

I have no faith in political arithmetic. Adam Smith

Close letter words and terms

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