A person imprisoned for their political views or political activism.

(law) The set of policies (laws, plans, actions, behaviors) of a government; plans and methods of action that govern that society; a system of laws, courses of action, and priorities directing a government action.

A pole in the street alongside a place where members of the public can hire taxis.

(mathematics) The coordinates of a point in a plane, measured as its Cartesian distance from the origin and the angle measured anticlockwise/counterclockwise from the x-axis to a line joining the point to the origin.

One engaged in politics, especially an elected or appointed government official. / Specifically, one who regards elected political office as a career. / A politically active or interested person.

(idiomatic) A survey of opinion or a vote that is nonbinding, unofficial, casual, or ad hoc.

A casual, usually short-sleeved, shirt with a protruding collar and a small number of buttons extending a short distance below the collar (and not all the way down the front of the shirt).

Well-mannered, civilized. / (obsolete) Smooth, polished, burnished.

(obsolete, transitive) To polish; to refine; to render polite.

(uncountable) A ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal.