policy

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Synonyms: police, polity, polica, polich

Antonyms: police, polity, polica, polich

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Noun

1. A principle of behaviour, conduct which an entity (government, organization, etc.) applies or seeks to follow, especially as formally expressed by an authoritative body. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
   • 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. 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. Wise, advantageous, or politic conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness.
4. Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft.
5. The grounds of a large country house.
6. The art of governance; political science.
7. A state; a polity.
8. A set political system; civil administration.
9. A trick; a stratagem.
10. Motive; object; inducement.

Verb

1. To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.

Noun

1. A contract of insurance. A document containing or certifying this contract.
   • Your insurance policy covers fire and theft only.
2. A contract of insurance.
3. A document containing or certifying this contract.
   • Your insurance policy covers fire and theft only.
4. An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (no plural)
5. A number pool lottery

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