Usually means: Organized society functioning as entity.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word body politic:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. body politic, the body politic: Merriam-Webster
  2. body politic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. body politic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. body politic, the body politic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. body politic: Vocabulary.com
  6. body-politic, body politic: Wordnik
  7. the body politic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. body politic: Wiktionary
  9. body politic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Body Politic (TV pilot), Body Politic (magazine), Body Politic, Body politic (disambiguation), Body politic, The Body Politic (magazine): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. body politic: Rhymezone
  12. Body Politic: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  13. body politic: FreeDictionary.org
  14. body politic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. body politic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. body politic: Infoplease Dictionary
  17. body politic: Dictionary.com
  18. body politic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. body politic: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Body-politic, body politic: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Body-politic, body politic: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. body politic: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. body politic: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See body_politics as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (body politic)

noun:  (figurative) The collective body of a nation or state as politically organized.
noun:  (figurative) The collective body of a nation or state as exercising political functions.
noun:  (archaic) A corporation.

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