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policy

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) policie, from . Compare police.

Noun

(policies)

(obsolete) The art of governance; political science.

* a. 1616 , (William Shakespeare), Henry V , I.1:

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

(obsolete) A state; a polity.

(obsolete) A set political system; civil administration.

(obsolete) A trick; a stratagem.

* a. 1594 , (William Shakespeare), Titus Andronicus :

'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.

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.

Wise or advantageous conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness.

* 1813 , Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice , Modern Library Edition (1995), page 140:

These bitter accusations might have been suppressed, had I with greater policy concealed my struggles, and flattered you

* Fuller

The very policy of a hostess, finding his purse so far above his clothes, did detect him.

(now, rare) Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft.

* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.25:

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.

(Scotland, now, chiefly, in the plural) The grounds of a large country house.

* 1955 , (Robin Jenkins), The Cone-Gatherers , Canongate 2012, page 36:

Next morning was so splendid that as he walked through the policies towards the mansion house despair itself was lulled.

(obsolete) Motive; object; inducement.

* Sir Philip Sidney

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 mix

Verb

To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.

* Francis Bacon

Policying of cities.''

Etymology 2

From (etyl) police, from (etyl) polizza, from

Noun

(policies)

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

Synonyms

* (number pool) policy racket

Derived terms

* policyholder

External links

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hamiltonism

English

Noun

(-)

The economic policy attributed to .

* 1954, L. M. Hacker, “The Anticapitalist Bias of American Historians,” in Capitalism and the Historians, Friedrich A Hayek ed. [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0226320723&id=Z80ZQbpaD8UC&pg=RA1-PA84&lpg=RA1-PA84&sig=gZMnjufIPytwIAUuEn2Nmf8z7TU]

Politically, to these leveling historians, Hamiltonism was evil; and by the same token a moral and not an economic judgment is passed on his extraordinary achievements.

* 2000, Thomas Fleming, Duel [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0465017371&id=qRt5USjArIkC&pg=PA274&lpg=PA274&sig=0IZTukiIt0eDb12DTqcSDQF_G_k]

As days passed and Chief Justice Lewis said nothing about it, Kent and his convert to Hamiltonism , Judge Smith Thompson, grew uneasy.

* 2004, Theodore Sky, To Provide for the General Welfare, [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0874137934&id=dt-AagWHq_4C&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136&sig=Q9DBF5PJIeg9OMwPYXL5VTHOPJo]

Political reaction to the message varied. Purist Jeffersonians attacked it as a reversion to Hamiltonism and as moving in a direction of enhanced federal power.

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