Meaning of "policy" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD POLICY

From Old French policie, from Latin polītīa administration, polity.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF POLICY

policy  [ˈpɒlɪsɪ]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POLICY

Policy is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES POLICY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Policy

A policy is a principle or protocol to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes. A policy is a statement of intent, and is implemented as a procedure or protocol. Policies are generally adopted by the Board of or senior governance body within an organization whereas procedures or protocols would be developed and adopted by senior executive officers. Policies can assist in both subjective and objective decision making. Policies to assist in subjective decision making would usually assist senior management with decisions that must consider the relative merits of a number of factors before making decisions and as a result are often hard to objectively test e.g. work-life balance policy. In contrast policies to assist in objective decision making are usually operational in nature and can be objectively tested e.g. password policy. The term may apply to government, private sector organizations and groups, as well as individuals. Presidential executive orders, corporate privacy policies, and parliamentary rules of order are all examples of policy. Policy differs from rules or law.

Definition of policy in the English dictionary

The first definition of policy in the dictionary is a plan of action adopted or pursued by an individual, government, party, business, etc. Other definition of policy is wisdom, prudence, shrewdness, or sagacity. Policy is also the improved grounds surrounding a country house.

SYNONYMS OF «POLICY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «policy» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of policy

action · approach · code · custom · discretion · guideline · line · plan · practice · procedure · programme · protocol · prudence · sagacity · scheme · shrewdness · stratagem · theory · wisdom

TRANSLATION OF POLICY

Find out the translation of policy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of policy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «policy» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 政策
• Translator English - Spanish: política
• English: policy
• Translator English - Hindi: नीति
• Translator English - Arabic: سياسة
• Translator English - Russian: политика
• Translator English - Portuguese: política
• Translator English - Bengali: পুলিশিং
• Translator English - French: politique
• Translator English - Malay: Polis
• Translator English - German: Politik
• Translator English - Japanese: 政策
• Translator English - Korean: 정책
• Translator English - Javanese: Policing
• Translator English - Vietnamese: chính sách
• Translator English - Tamil: காவல்
• Translator English - Marathi: पॉलिसींग
• Translator English - Turkish: polislik
• Translator English - Italian: politica
• Translator English - Polish: Polityka
• Translator English - Ukrainian: політика
• Translator English - Romanian: Politica
• Translator English - Greek: πολιτική
• Translator English - Afrikaans: beleid
• Translator English - Swedish: politik
• Translator English - Norwegian: politikk

10 QUOTES WITH «POLICY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word policy.

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Elliott Abrams

On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.

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Elliott Abrams

In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president's approach to the world since the Second World War, save for that of his soulmate Jimmy Carter.

3

Catherine Ashton

I look for the consensus because the consensus drives the policy into new places.

4

Norman Ralph Augustine

There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.

5

Sidney Blumenthal

The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.

6

Derek Bok

The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.

7

Rick Boucher

I have been involved in Internet-related policy for approximately one decade, and I have been using the Internet myself for almost that period of time.

8

Zbigniew Brzezinski

It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.

9

Jenna Bush

I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.

10

Chris Cannon

The American people are not anti-immigrant. We are concerned about the lack of coherence in our immigration policy and enforcement.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POLICY»

Discover the use of policy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to policy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Policy Transfer And Criminal Justice

Annotation.

Jones, Trevor, Newburn, Tim, 2006

Fiscal Policy Rules

What are fiscal policy rules?

George Kopits, Steven A. Symansky, 1998

Business Policy and Strategic Management

Most of the organizations have started adopting strategic management system. This book focuses on conceptual approach to the subject as well as some select case studies, which make a foundation to the knowledge of strategic management.

G. V. Satya Sekhar, 2009

Monetary Theory and Policy

An overview of recent theoretical and policy-related developments in monetary economics.

Carl E. Walsh, 2003

Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy

In this critical study, a career CIA officer provides a guide to constructing and executing counter-terrorist policy, urging that it be formulated as an integral part of broader US foreign policy.

Paul R. Pillar, 2001

Ethics and Foreign Policy

Democratic citizenship possible: MERVYN FROST

Karen E. Smith, Margot Light, 2001

Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng's China

"This is a seminal contribution to policy making as a subject of anthropological study.

Susan Greenhalgh, 2008

Cannabis Use and Dependence: Public Health and Public Policy

This book, first published in 2003, explores the relationship between health policy, public health and the law regarding cannabis use.

Wayne Hall, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, 2003

Analysing Public Policy

An accessible review of the main approaches in the study of public policy, this text argues that most writers who seek to explain how policy varies and changes use one of the five frameworks: institutional, group/network, socio-economic, ...

Peter John, 1998

Health Economics and Policy (with Economic Applications)

The 5th Edition of HEALTH ECONOMICS AND POLICY (WITH ECONOMIC APPLICATIONS) thoroughly demonstrates how microeconomic principles apply to health care delivery and its policies.

James Henderson, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POLICY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term policy is used in the context of the following news items.

Need For Concrete Policy Against Terrorism: KPS Gill

NEW DELHI: There was urgent need for a concrete policy against terrorism to prevent incidents like Monday's terror attack in Gurdaspur district ... «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»

Local environmental activists don't get to make federal policy

When President Obama recently approved Shell's request to drill in the Arctic, anti-fossil-fuel activists lobbied the Port of Seattle to deny ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»

Ex-minister: Merkel's Greece policy is 'fatal'

Joschka Fischer, former German vice-chancellor and foreign minister between 1998 and 2005, unleashed an uncompromising attack on ... «The Local.de, Jul 15»

Turkey's bombs expose a failed Syria policy

The problem with this linear account of Ankara's volte-face on Isis is that hardly anyone outside government circles believes it. The policy of the ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»

Google kills mandatory Google Plus identity policy

Google has announced that it will begin rolling back its much-hated policies on name and account linking through Google+. Going forward, you ... «ExtremeTech, Jul 15»

Policy mish-mash leaves both Coalition and Labor wanting

The most obvious policy failure was Labor's policy on boat people. The deaths of more than 1000 people who drowned at sea were a direct ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»

Bank of America's New Coal Policy Is Groundbreaking — and …

This post looks back on the bank's release of its updated coal policy in May, and looks at the strengths and weaknesses of the policy update ... «AlterNet, Jul 15»

Monetary policy committee: Will the Reserve Bank Governor have …

The revised IFC proposes to do away with the veto power enjoyed by RBI Governor on policy rates, instead suggesting a decision by a majority ... «The Indian Express, Jul 15»

Google implementing stricter AdSense user consent policy to …

Google announced today that it is updating its AdSense user consent policy to comply with requests from European Union data protection ... «9 to 5 Google, Jul 15»

BVU board takes no action on new policy governing transactions

State law doesn't forbid employees or owners who serve on the board from bidding, but the policy would establish a process to exclude the ... «Bristol Herald Courier, Jul 15»