policynoun詞源 1/ˈpɒl.ə.si/

• 1

  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.
• 2

  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.
• 3

  Wise, advantageous, or politic conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness.

  • [H]e [Richard I of England] was diſcovered in an inne in Auſtria, becauſe he diſguiſed his perſon not his expenſes; ſo that the very policie of an hoſteſſe, finding his purſe ſo farre above his clothes, did detect him: […]
  • These bitter accusations might have been suppressed, had I with greater policy concealed my struggles, and flattered you into the belief of my being impelled by unqualified, unalloyed inclination; […]
• 4

  archaicSpecifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft.

  • I, 'policie? that's their profession, And not simplicity, as they suggest.
  • Whether he believed himself a god, or only took on the attributes of divinity from motives of policy, is a question for the psychologist, since the historical evidence is indecisive.
• 5

  The grounds of a large country house.

  • 1775, Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland section on Aberbrothick Now and then about a gentleman’s house stands a small plantation, which in Scotch is called a policy, but of these there are few, and those few all very young.
  • There was but one thing happened worth narrating; and that is the visit I had of Robin Oig, one of the sons of the notorious Rob Roy. He was sought upon all sides on a charge of carrying a young woman from Balfron and marrying her (as was alleged) by force; yet he stepped about Balquhidder like a gentleman in his own walled policy.
• 6

  obsoleteThe art of governance; political science.

  • Liſt his diſcourse of Warre; and you ſhall heare / A fearefull Battaile rendred you in Muſique. / Turne him to any Cauſe of Pollicy, / The Gordian Knot of it he will vnlooſe, / Familiar as his Garter: […]
• 7

  obsoleteA state; a polity.

• 8

  obsoleteA set political system; civil administration.

policyverb詞源 1/ˈpɒl.ə.si/

• 1

  To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.

  • Policying of cities.

policynoun詞源 2/ˈpɒl.ə.si/

• 1

  lawA contract of insurance.

• 2

  lawA document containing or certifying this contract.

  • Your insurance policy covers fire and theft only.
• 3

  obsoleteAn illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (no plural)

• 4

  A number pool lottery