Policy
['pɒləsɪ] or ['pɑləsi]
Definition
(noun.) a plan of action adopted by an individual or social group; 'it was a policy of retribution'; 'a politician keeps changing his policies'.
(noun.) written contract or certificate of insurance; 'you should have read the small print on your policy'.
(noun.) a line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government; 'they debated the policy or impolicy of the proposed legislation'.
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Definition
(n.) Civil polity.
(n.) The settled method by which the government and affairs of a nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public or official administration, as designed to promote the external or internal prosperity of a state.
(n.) The method by which any institution is administered; system of management; course.
(n.) Management or administration based on temporal or material interest, rather than on principles of equity or honor; hence, worldly wisdom; dexterity of management; cunning; stratagem.
(n.) Prudence or wisdom in the management of public and private affairs; wisdom; sagacity; wit.
(n.) Motive; object; inducement.
(v. t.) To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.
(n.) A ticket or warrant for money in the public funds.
(n.) The writing or instrument in which a contract of insurance is embodied; an instrument in writing containing the terms and conditions on which one party engages to indemnify another against loss arising from certain hazards, perils, or risks to which his person or property may be exposed. See Insurance.
(n.) A method of gambling by betting as to what numbers will be drawn in a lottery; as, to play policy.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Administration, management, government, rule, mode of management, course of action.[2]. Cunning, art, address, skill, prudence, shrewdness.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Plan, device, system, prudence, management, cunning,[See DEVICE]
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Definition
n. the art or manner of regulating or guiding conduct: the method and forms according to which the government and business of a country are carried on: a system of administration guided more by interest than by principle: dexterity of management: prudence: cunning: in Scotland (esp. in pl.) the pleasure-grounds around a mansion.
n. a warrant for money in the funds: a writing containing a contract of insurance: a kind of gambling by betting on the numbers to be drawn in a lottery.—n. Pol′icy-hold′er one who holds a policy or contract of insurance.
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Examples
- I can only suppose now, that it was a part of his policy, as a very clever man, habitually to deceive his own instruments. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It's policy to give 'em line enough, and there's no objection to that. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Only the first of the Han monarchs continued the policy of Shi-Hwang-ti against the _literati_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Foreign policy is the natural employment of courts and monarchies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The let-alone policy had demoralized this force so that probably but little more than one-half of it was ever present in garrison at any one time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We have opened all the public-houses in the place, and left our adversary nothing but the beer-shops--masterly stroke of policy that, my dear Sir, eh? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- That alone was enough to make Machiavelli, the father of modern foreign policy, turn in his grave. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A nation bent upon a policy of social invention would make its tools an incident. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- This would have lengthened the average reign of each Pope, and enormously increased the continuity of the policy of the church. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In later years these ideas developed into a definite political theory and policy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I don't think it would be good policy, said Wildeve, smiling. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The like prohibition seems anciently to have made a part of the policy of most other European nations. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Is not honesty the best policy? Plato. The Republic.
- This policy was to be pursued. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Such have been the general outlines of the policy of the different European nations with regard to their colonies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is no part of my purpose to make any judgment as to the value of particular policies they have advocated. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- So with the policies of business men. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And in our own efforts to shape policies we do not seek out what is worth doing: we seek out what will pass for moral, practical, popular or constitutional. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And thou, Waldemar, wilt thou take lance and shield, and lay down thy policies, and wend along with me, and share the fate which God sends us? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Differences of opinion must exist between the best of friends as to policies in war, and of judgment as to men's fitness. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But for the affairs of statecraft, for the very policies that a Roosevelt advocates, the interest is largely perfunctory, maintained out of a sense of duty and dropped with a sigh of relief. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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