English- translations for policy

Definition of policy

• A principle of behaviour, conduct etc. thought to be desirable or necessary, especially as formally expressed by a government or other authoritative body.
• Wise or advantageous conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness.
• Specifically, political shrewdness or cunning; statecraft.
• The grounds of a large country house.
• The art of governance; political science.
• A state; a polity.
• A trick; a stratagem.
• Motive; object; inducement
• To regulate by laws; to reduce to order
• An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (''no plural''

Synonyms

• policy racket

Examples

• The Communist Party has a policy of returning power to the workers.
• Your insurance policy covers fire and theft only.

Related words

• policymaker
• policyholder
• policymaking
• impolicy
• policy of aggrandizement
• policy mix
• policy maker
• policy institute
• policy holder