policy

IPA: pˈɑɫʌsi

A principle of behaviour, conduct etc. thought to be desirable or necessary, especially as formally expressed by a government or other authoritative body.
Wise or advantageous conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness.
(now rare) Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft.
(Scotland, now chiefly in the plural) The grounds of a large country house.
(obsolete) The art of governance; political science.
(obsolete) A state; a polity.
(obsolete) A set political system; civil administration.
(obsolete) A trick; a stratagem.
(obsolete) Motive; object; inducement.
(law)
A contract of insurance.
A document containing or certifying this contract.
(obsolete) An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (no plural)
A number pool lottery

Examples of "policy" in Sentences

It is the government's keynote policy.
The government devised the new deal policy.
The federal government announced a new policy.
The government decided to reshuffle the policy.
The pricing policy is given by the government of India.
The yellow nib represents the government's education policy.
Currency debasement is planned inflation, as a government policy.
It is the duty of the Government to implement the policy of the nation.
In keeping with this policy, the government maintains an immunization program.
The organization vigorously protested, and helped mobilize opposition to the policy.