Definition of policy

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Policy (n.) A method of gambling by betting as to what numbers will be drawn in a lottery; as, to play policy..

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Measure :: Measure (a.) A step or definite part of a progressive course or policy; a means to an end; an act designed for the accomplishment of an object; as, political measures; prudent measures; an inefficient measure..
Do-nothing :: Do-nothing (a.) Doing nothing; inactive; idle; lazy; as, a do-nothing policy..
Protection :: Protection (n.) A theory, or a policy, of protecting the producers in a country from foreign competition in the home market by the imposition of such discriminating duties on goods of foreign production as will restrict or prevent their importation; -- opposed to free trade..
Aggressive :: Aggressive (a.) Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation..
Father :: Father (v. t.) To take as one's own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc.)..
Spoilsmonger :: Spoilsman (n.) One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public service..
Adopt :: Adopt (v. t.) To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted..
Underwriter :: Underwriter (n.) One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer..
Priestcraft :: Priestcraft (n.) Priestly policy; the policy of a priesthood; esp., in an ill sense, fraud or imposition in religious concerns; management by priests to gain wealth and power by working upon the religious motives or credulity of others..
Policy :: Policy (n.) The settled method by which the government and affairs of a nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public or official administration, as designed to promote the external or internal prosperity of a state..
Platform :: Platform (n.) A declaration of the principles upon which a person, a sect, or a party proposes to stand; a declared policy or system; as, the Saybrook platform; a political platform..
Adhesion :: Adhesion (n.) Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, adhesion to error, to a policy..
Policying :: Policying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Polic.
Bonapartist :: Bonapartist (n.) One attached to the policy or family of Bonaparte, or of the Bonapartes..
Defence :: Defence (n.) Act or skill in making defense; defensive plan or policy; practice in self defense, as in fencing, boxing, etc..
Secessionism :: Secessionism (n.) The doctrine or policy of secession; the tenets of secession; the tenets of secessionists.
Jeffersonian :: "Jeffersonian (a.) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, Thomas Jefferson or his policy or political doctrines..
Politic :: Politic (a.) Sagacious in promoting a policy; ingenious in devising and advancing a system of management; devoted to a scheme or system rather than to a principle; hence, in a good sense, wise; prudent; sagacious; and in a bad sense, artful; unscrupulous; cunning; -- said of persons..
Industrialism :: Industrialism (n.) The principles or policy applicable to industrial pursuits or organized labor.
Convictism :: Convictism (n.) The policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements.
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