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policy
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Definitions ofpolicy
1noun
- A principle of behaviour, conduct etc. thought to be desirable or necessary, especially as formally expressed by a government or other authoritative body.
Example: "The Communist Party has a policy of returning power to the workers."
- Wise or advantageous conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness.
- Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft.
- (now chiefly in the plural) The grounds of a large country house.
- The art of governance; political science.
- A state; a polity.
- A set political system; civil administration.
- A trick; a stratagem.
- Motive; object; inducement.
1verb
- To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.
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