policy

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noun

Plural noun:

policies

1.
(countable, uncountable)A principle of behaviour, conduct which an entity (government, organization, etc.) applies or seeks to follow, especially as formally expressed by an authoritative body.
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.
2.
(countable, uncountable)A document describing such a policy.
Please print extra copies of this policy and post them where it will be easy for everyone to see.
3.
(countable, uncountable)Wise, advantageous, or politic conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness.
4.
(archaic, countable, uncountable)(now rare) Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft.
5.
(Scotland, countable, in plural, uncountable)(Scotland, now chiefly in the plural) The grounds of a large country house.
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.
6.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)The art of governance; political science.
7.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A state; a polity.
8.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A set political system; civil administration.
9.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A trick; a stratagem.
10.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Motive; object; inducement.
11.
A contract of insurance.
12.
A document containing or certifying this contract.
Your insurance policy covers fire and theft only.

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verb

V_es/s

policies

V_ing/Gerund

policying

V_ed/pp

policied

1.
(transitive)To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.

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From Middle English policie, from Old French policie, pollicie and police, from - politia (citizenship; government), classical Latin polītīa (in Cicero), from Ancient Greek πολιτεία (citizenship; polis, (city) state; government), from πολίτης (citizen). police polity.