policy
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
policy1
▶noun (pl. policies)
- 1 a course or principle of action adopted or proposed by an organization or individual.
- 2 archaic prudent or expedient conduct or action.
– origin ME: from OFr. policie ‘civil administration’, via L. from Gk politeia ‘citizenship’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
policy2
▶noun (pl. policies) a contract of insurance.
– origin C16: from Fr. police ‘bill of lading, contract of insurance’.
'policy' also found in these Oxford entries:
about-turn
- advocate
- aggressive
- Bank of England
- beggar-my-neighbour
- big
- bond
- brinkmanship
- buy-in
- cabinet
- ca'canny
- CAP
- carry
- cash
- caucus
- claim
- cleave
- colonialism
- commit
- commitment
- co-opt
- cornerstone
- coverage
- cover note
- desegregate
- dissident
- dividend
- double indemnity
- effective
- enclosure
- endorsement
- endowment mortgage
- establishment
- exclusion
- exclusivism
- expansionism
- final solution
- flip-flop
- foot
- free vote
- friendly
- glasnost
- govern
- gradualism
- gunboat diplomacy
- half measure
- hard line
- hard sell
- hawk
- imperialism
