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policies

noun

Meaning

  1. A principle of behaviour, conduct etc. thought to be desirable or necessary, especially as formally expressed by a government or other authoritative body.
  2. Wise or advantageous conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness.
  3. Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft.
  4. (now chiefly in the plural) The grounds of a large country house.
  5. The art of governance; political science.
  6. A state; a polity.
  7. To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.
  8. A contract of insurance.
  9. A document containing or certifying this contract.
  10. An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (no plural)
  11. A number pool lottery

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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