Meaning of policy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. politics (activities associated with running a government or organisation)
2. A principle of behaviour, conduct which an entity (government, organization, etc.) applies or seeks to follow, especially as formally expressed by an authoritative body.
   countable, uncountable
3. A contract of insurance.
4. policy (a formal principle or protocol of conduct)
5. A document describing such a policy.
   countable, uncountable
6. A document containing or certifying this contract.
7. female equivalent of político (“politician”)
8. Wise, advantageous, or politic conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness.
   countable, uncountable
9. An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (no plural)
   obsolete
10. feminine singular of político
11. Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft.
    archaic, countable, uncountable
12. A number pool lottery
13. The grounds of a large country house.
    Scotland, countable, in-plural, uncountable
14. The art of governance; political science.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
15. A state; a polity.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
16. A set political system; civil administration.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
17. A trick; a stratagem.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
18. Motive; object; inducement.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The Communist Party has a policy of returning power to the workers.”

“It's company policy that all mobile phones are forbidden in meetings.”

“Federal policy is constructed in complex ways, involving legislation, regulation, and lobbying.”

“Please print extra copies of this policy and post them where it will be easy for everyone to see.”

“[H]e [Richard I of England] was diſcovered in an inne in Auſtria, becauſe he diſguiſed his perſon not his expenſes; ſo that the very policie of an hoſteſſe, finding his purſe ſo farre above his clothes, did detect him: […]”

“These bitter accusations might have been suppressed, had I with greater policy concealed my struggles, and flattered you into the belief of my being impelled by unqualified, unalloyed inclination; […]”

“I, 'policie? that's their profession, And not simplicity, as they suggest.”

“Whether he believed himself a god, or only took on the attributes of divinity from motives of policy, is a question for the psychologist, since the historical evidence is indecisive.”

“1775, Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland section on Aberbrothick Now and then about a gentleman’s house stands a small plantation, which in Scotch is called a policy, but of these there are few, and those few all very young.”

“There was but one thing happened worth narrating; and that is the visit I had of Robin Oig, one of the sons of the notorious Rob Roy. He was sought upon all sides on a charge of carrying a young woman from Balfron and marrying her (as was alleged) by force; yet he stepped about Balquhidder like a gentleman in his own walled policy.”

“Next morning was so splendid that as he walked through the policies towards the mansion house despair itself was lulled.”

“The house and its policies (grounds) lie between what were once two or three separate hamlets.”

“Liſt his diſcourse of Warre; and you ſhall heare / A fearefull Battaile rendred you in Muſique. / Turne him to any Cauſe of Pollicy, / The Gordian Knot of it he will vnlooſe, / Familiar as his Garter: […]”

“Tis pollicie and ſtratageme muſt doo / That you affect, and ſo muſt you reſolue, / That vvhat you cannot as you vvould atchiue, / You muſt perforce accompliſh as you may: […]”

“I pray you (said he) honest men, what such right have you in me, as not to suffer me to doe with my self what I list? and what pollicie have you to bestow a benefite where it is counted an injury?”

The New Arcadia

“Your insurance policy covers fire and theft only.”

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