policy
/ˈpɑ.lə.si/ verb C2- To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.
He/she/it policies · Past policied · Past participle policied · -ing form policying
Verb forms
- Base form
- policy
- He/she/it
- policies
- Past
- policied
- Past participle
- policied
- -ing form
- policying
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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.
Again and again his word has decided the national policy.
It has always been against the policy of despotic governments to suffer the victims of their persecutions to reappear.
My good fellow, you must have lost your senses to think it possible I could act with such cold-blooded policy.”
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