policy
nounEtymology
From Middle English policie, from Old French policie, pollicie and police, from Late Latin politia (“citizenship; government”), classical Latin polītīa (in Cicero), from Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeía, “citizenship; polis, (city) state; government”), from πολίτης (polítēs, “citizen”). Doublet of police, polis (“police”), and polity.
Definitions
A principle of behaviour, conduct which an entity (government, organization, etc.)…
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.
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.
Wise, advantageous, or politic conduct
Wise, advantageous, or politic conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness.
- [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; […]
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Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning
Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft.
- 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.
The grounds of a large country house.
- Next morning was so splendid that as he walked through the policies towards the mansion house despair itself was lulled.
The art of governance
The art of governance; political science.
- 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: […]
A state
A state; a polity.
A set political system
A set political system; civil administration.
A trick
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: […]
Motive
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?
To regulate by laws
To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.
- Policying of cities.
A contract of insurance.
A document containing or certifying this contract.
- Your insurance policy covers fire and theft only.
An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers…
An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (no plural)
A number pool lottery
The neighborhood
- synonympolicy racket
Derived
antipolicy, discretionary fiscal policy, domestic policy, domestic policy council, endowment policy, exit policy, fiscal policy, foreign policy, honesty is the best policy, metapolicy, Mexico City policy, micropolicy, mispolicy, monetary policy, multipolicy, nonpolicy, one-child policy, open door policy, open-door policy, ostrich policy, policied, policy by press release, policy economy, policy holder, policyholding, policy institute, policy interest rate, policy keyboard, policyless, policymaker, policy maker, policy-making, policymaking, policy mix, policy pattern, policy rate, policyscape, policy shift, policy shop, policywise · +14 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at policy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at policy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at policy
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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