English-Portuguese translations for policy

• política
  A política europeia é política interna. European policy is domestic policy.
  A política no domínio da deficiência não é uma área de política.Disability policy is not a policy area.
  Um exemplo disso é a política climática. One example is climate policy.
• apólice
  Como sabem trata-se da nossa apólice de seguros, tal como a Comissão o afirmou. As you know it is our insurance policy, as the Commission has said.
  O Fundo de Solidariedade apresenta-se como uma espécie de apólice de seguro de pequena escala contra tais fenómenos. The Solidarity Fund offers a sort of small-scale insurance policy against them.
  Sucede é que, como em qualquer seguro, são apresentados pedidos de indemnização sobre apólices que já expiraram. Rather, as with all insurance, claims are made against a policy after it has ended.

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