Clause vs Policy - What's the difference?
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(rfc-sense) (grammar, informal) A group of two or more words which include a subject and any necessary predicate (the predicate also includes a verb, conjunction, or a preposition) to begin the clause; however, this clause is not considered a sentence for colloquial purposes.
(grammar) A verb along with its subject and their modifiers. If a clause provides a complete thought on its own, then it is an independent (superordinate) clause; otherwise, it is (subordinate) dependent.
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(legal) A separate part of a contract, a will or another legal document.
(shipping) To amend (a bill of lading or similar document).
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(obsolete) The art of governance; political science.
* a. 1616 , (William Shakespeare), Henry V , I.1:
(obsolete) A state; a polity.
(obsolete) A set political system; civil administration.
(obsolete) A trick; a stratagem.
* a. 1594 , (William Shakespeare), Titus Andronicus :
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.
* 1813 , Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice , Modern Library Edition (1995), page 140:
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(now, rare) Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft.
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.25:
(Scotland, now, chiefly, in the plural) The grounds of a large country house.
* 1955 , (Robin Jenkins), The Cone-Gatherers , Canongate 2012, page 36:
(obsolete) Motive; object; inducement.
* Sir Philip Sidney
To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.
* Francis Bacon
A contract of insurance
* Your insurance policy covers fire and theft only.
(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
As nouns the difference between clause and policy
is that clause is (grammar|informal) a group of two or more words which include a subject and any necessary predicate (the predicate also includes a verb, conjunction, or a preposition) to begin the clause; however, this clause is not considered a sentence for colloquial purposes while policy is (obsolete) the art of governance; political science or policy can be a contract of insurance.As verbs the difference between clause and policy
is that clause is (shipping) to amend (a bill of lading or similar document) while policy is to regulate by laws; to reduce to order.clause
English
(wikipedia clause)Noun
(en noun)- However, Coordination facts seem to undermine this hasty conclusion: thus, consider the following:
(43) [Your sister could go to College], but [would she get a degree''?]
The second (italicised) conjunct is a Clause''' containing an inverted Auxiliary, ''would''. Given our earlier assumptions that inverted Auxiliaries are in C, and that C is a constituent of S-bar, it follows that the italicised '''Clause''' in (43) must be an S-bar. But our familiar constraint on Coordination tells us that only constituents belonging to ''the same Category'' can be conjoined. Since the second '''Clause''' in (43) is clearly an S-bar, then it follows that the first ' Clause must also be an S-bar — one in which the C(omplementiser) position has been left empty.
Usage notes
In When it got dark, they went back into the house'', “''When it got dark” is a dependent clause within the complete sentence. The independent clause "they went back into the house" could stand alone as a sentence, whereas the dependent clause could not.Derived terms
(types of grammatical clauses) * adjective clause * adverbial clause * appositive clause * concessive clause * comment clause * comparative clause * coordinate clause * defining relative clause * dependent clause, subordinate clause * independent clause, main clause, superordinate clause * finite clause * if clause, conditional mood, conditional clause * nondefining relative clause * non-finite clause * noun clause, nominal clause * relative clause * restrictive clause * verbless clause (grammatical terms) * clause element * clause function * subclause (part of a legal document) * noncompete clauseVerb
(claus)External links
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) policie, from . Compare police.Noun
(policies)- List his discourse of Warre; and you shall heare / A fearefull Battaile rendred you in Musique. / Turne him to any Cause of Pollicy , / The Gordian Knot of it he will vnloose, / Familiar as his Garter
- 'Tis pollicie , and stratageme must doe / That you affect, and so must you resolue, / That what you cannot as you would atcheiue, / You must perforce accomplish as you may.
- The Communist Party has a policy of returning power to the workers.
- These bitter accusations might have been suppressed, had I with greater policy concealed my struggles, and flattered you
- The very policy of a hostess, finding his purse so far above his clothes, did detect him.
- Whether he believed himself a god, or only took on the attributes of divinity from motives of policy , is a question for the psychologist, since the historical evidence is indecisive.
- Next morning was so splendid that as he walked through the policies towards the mansion house despair itself was lulled.
- What policy have you to bestow a benefit where it is counted an injury?
Derived terms
* policied * policymaker * policy shift * endowment policy * fiscal policy * honesty is the best policy * monetary policy * policy mixVerb
- Policying of cities.''
