policy

Plural: policies

Noun

• A course of action or principle adopted by an organization.
• a plan of action adopted by an individual or social group
  • "it was a policy of retribution"
• a line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government
  • "they debated the policy or impolicy of the proposed legislation"
• written contract or certificate of insurance
  • "you should have read the small print on your policy"
• A principle of behaviour, conduct which an entity (government, organization, etc.) applies or seeks to follow, especially as formally expressed by an authoritative body.
• A document describing such a policy.
• Wise, advantageous, or politic conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness.
• Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft.
• 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.
• A contract of insurance.
• A document containing or certifying this contract.
• 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

Verb

• To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.

Examples

• Federal policy is constructed in complex ways, involving legislation, regulation, and lobbying.
• His policy in Words With Friends was to save high-value letters for bonus squares.
• It's company policy that all mobile phones are forbidden in meetings.
• Please print extra copies of this policy and post them where it will be easy for everyone to see.
• The Communist Party has a policy of returning power to the workers.
• Your insurance policy covers fire and theft only.

Synonyms

insurance, insurance policy, policy racket