policy
/ˈpɑ.lə.si/ noun B1- A principle of behaviour, conduct which an entity (government, organization, etc.) applies or seeks to follow, especially as formally expressed by an authoritative body. · The Communist Party has a policy of returning power to the workers.· It's company policy that all mobile phones are forbidden in meetings.
- A document describing such a policy. · Please print extra copies of this policy and post them where it will be easy for everyone to see.
- Wise, advantageous, or politic conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness.
Plural policies
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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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