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policy

/ˈpɑ.lə.si/ noun C2
  1. A contract of insurance.
  2. A document containing or certifying this contract. · Your insurance policy covers fire and theft only.
  3. A number pool lottery

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I nearly asked him so—for there are times when a brutal frontal attack is the best policy—but I judged it better to let him think he had fooled us.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 78 · B2
Again and again his word has decided the national policy.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 4 · B2
It has always been against the policy of despotic governments to suffer the victims of their persecutions to reappear.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 138 · C1
My good fellow, you must have lost your senses to think it possible I could act with such cold-blooded policy.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 421 · C1

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