policy

Etymology 1
From, from , and , from  , classical  (in Cicero), from , from. Compare.

Noun

 * 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) A document describing such a policy.
 * 3) Wise or advantageous conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness.
 * 4)  Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft.
 * 5)  The grounds of a large country house.
 * 6) * 1775,, 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.
 * 1)  The art of governance; political science.
 * 2)  A state; a polity.
 * 3)  A set political system; civil administration.
 * 4)  A trick; a stratagem.
 * 5)  Motive; object; inducement.
 * 1) * 1775,, 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.
 * 1)  The art of governance; political science.
 * 2)  A state; a polity.
 * 3)  A set political system; civil administration.
 * 4)  A trick; a stratagem.
 * 5)  Motive; object; inducement.
 * 1)  A set political system; civil administration.
 * 2)  A trick; a stratagem.
 * 3)  Motive; object; inducement.
 * 1)  Motive; object; inducement.

Translations

 * Albanian:
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 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: ,
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 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
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 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: politiko
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: პოლიტიკა, პოლიტიკური კურსი
 * German:, Handlungsgrundsatz, , Verfahrensweise,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:, , , , , , , , ,
 * Icelandic: stefna
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: beartas, polasaí
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kazakh:, политика
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:, политика
 * Lao: ນະໂຍບາຍ
 * Latvian: politika
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lü: ᦟᦱᦋᦅᦸᧂ
 * Macedonian: политика
 * Malay: polisi
 * Maltese: politika
 * Maori: kaupapa here
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 * Russian:, ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: полиса, политика
 * Roman: polisa,
 * Slovak: politika
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 * Tajik:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: སྲིད་ཇུས, སྲིད་བྱུས
 * Turkmen:, politika
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: سیاست,
 * Uyghur:, فاڭجېن
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yiddish: פּאָליטיק


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician:
 * German:, ,
 * Hungarian:, , , ,
 * Japanese: ,
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Verb

 * 1)  To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) A contract of insurance.
 * 2) A document containing or certifying this contract.
 * 3)  An 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
 * 1)  An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (no plural)
 * 2) A number pool lottery

Synonyms

 * (number pool) policy racket

Translations

 * Arabic: سَنَد تَأْمِين
 * Egyptian Arabic: بوليسة تَأْمِين
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: pòlissa
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, verzekeringscontract
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, biztosítási kötvény
 * Irish: polasaí
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 契約内容,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: polise
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: póliza
 * Swahili:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:


 * Swahili:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic:
 * German:
 * Italian: ,