Sekirov Dictionary

policy

UK /ˈpɒl.ə.si/US /ˈpɑ.lə.si/

noun 14
verb 1
forms 3
phrases 2

noun14

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a way of acting that a government or a company has officially decided to follow
- The Communist Party has a policy of returning power to the workers.
- It's company policy that all mobile phones are forbidden in meetings.
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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.
A contract of insurance.
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A document containing or certifying this contract.
- Your insurance policy covers fire and theft only.
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Wise, advantageous, or politic conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness.
- 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; […] — 1813
A number pool lottery
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[in the plural] (Scotland) The grounds of a large country house.
- 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. — 1775
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(no longer used) Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft.
- I, 'policie? that's their profession, And not simplicity, as they suggest. — 1589
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(no longer used) A trick; a stratagem.
- 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: […] — 1588
(no longer used) An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (no plural)
(no longer used) The art of governance; political science.
(no longer used) A state; a polity.
(no longer used) A set political system; civil administration.
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(no longer used) Motive; object; inducement.
- 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? — 1580

verb1

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To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.
- Policying of cities. — 1605

forms

policied · policying · policies

Phrases with policy

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