- give a political character to; "politicize the discussion"
- A politicized issue is a social, economic, theological, spiritual, scientific or legal issue which has become a political issue, as a result of deliberate action or otherwise, whereby people become politically active over that issue.
- (Politicization) The process by which issues are taken out of the personal or private domain and situated instead within the public domain where they can compete for scarce resources. See also depoliticization .
- (Politicization) the tendency to make politics the first and only recourse to resolve public issues – an idolatrous form of politics or an addiction to coercion. (102)