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

Obama's behavior on the Gaza flotilla hardly deserves the label policy, much less strategy.
Coverage of $250,000 each can be obtained on a term policy for a total of about $120 per month, he says.
In general, the healthier you are, the better the price you will get by buying a term policy the conventional way.
The reason they are similar in policy is because they are both democrats duh (who disagreed on only 2 or 3 legislative votes).
Sounds like a change in policy is just what we need to weed out you lose cannons and get you the psychotherapy you so clearly need!
The same kind of hatred for the United States and its neocon Latin American policy is now sweeping through South and Central America.
If Greek thought gives us no guidance in foreign policy, it is no more helpful, except very indirectly, in another difficult region, that of _industrial policy_.
Parents can get life insurance for their children in the form of a term policy of five or 10 years, for example or a universal policy, which locks in a rate permanently and has no end-date.
As an interesting aside, I've never met anyone who actually bought a term policy, checked around to get the cost of a permanent policy with the same death benefit, and then invested the difference in a mutual fund every month.