| policy | |
| 1. n. (obsolete) The art of governance; political science. | |
| 2. n. (obsolete) A state; a polity. | |
| 3. n. (obsolete) A set political system; civil administration. | |
| 4. n. (obsolete) A trick; a stratagem. | |
| 5. n. A principle of behaviour, conduct etc. thought to be desirable or necessary, especially as formally expressed by a government or other authoritative body. | |
| The Communist Party has a policy of returning power to the workers. | |
| 6. n. Wise or advantageous conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness. | |
| 7. n. (now rare) Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft. | |
| 8. n. (Scotland now chiefly in the plural) The grounds of a large country house. | |
| 9. n. (obsolete) Motive; object; inducement. | |
| 10. v. To regulate by laws; to reduce to order. | |
| 11. n. law | |
| 12. n. A contract of insurance. | |
| 13. n. A document containing or certifying this contract. | |
| Your insurance policy covers fire and theft only. | |
| 14. n. (obsolete) An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (no plural) | |
| 15. n. A number pool lottery | |
