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Policy

noun

(pl. policies)

A plan of action adopted by an individual or social group. "A politician keeps changing his policies"

A line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government.

Written contract or certificate of insurance. Synonyms: insurance, insurance policy.

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"Policy" Quotes from Famous Books

... but opening new ones to tempt the ever restless spirit of gain. And, although the fur trade was still profitable, there was yet another springing up, which, for those who, like him, had no scruples about engaging in it, promised to become far more so. The restrictions which it had been the policy of our government to throw around commerce, in the incipient stages of our last national quarrel with Great Britain, had caused an unprecedented rise in the prices of silks and other fine fabrics of foreign import. This had put whatever there ...

— Gaut Gurley • D. P. Thompson

... and admirable in the conduct of Elizabeth that she made her pleasures subservient to her policy, and she maintained her affairs by what in general occasions the ruin of princes. So secret were her amours, that even to the present day their mysteries cannot be penetrated; but the utility she drew from them is public, and always operated for the good of her ...

— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli

... the action of diplomacy. The idea of being represented at the Council was revived in France; and a weary negotiation began, which lasted several months, and accomplished nothing but delay. It was not till the policy of intervention had ignominiously failed, and till its failure had left the Roman court to cope with the bishops alone, that the real question was brought on for discussion. And as long as the chance remained that political considerations ...

— The History of Freedom • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

... Japan changed her policy of exclusion to foreigners, after a fleet of warships battered down the Satsuma fortifications. The Samurai, who had hitherto considered their blades and bows efficient, discovered that one cannon was mightier than all the swords in creation—if they could not get ...

— The Clock that Had no Hands - And Nineteen Other Essays About Advertising • Herbert Kaufman

... conceived that the degree of interest felt at this distant period, in the controversy to which it relates, would warrant its publication, and more particularly as any one, wishing to obtain a knowledge of the principles and the policy which it advocates, may be gratified, by consulting some of the numerous pamphlets and manifestoes, which ...

— The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning • Hugh Binning

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