Policy vs Value - What's the difference?
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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:
* Fuller
(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
The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 13, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport
, title= The degree of importance given to something.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
* M'Culloch
* Dryden
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (music) The relative duration of a musical note.
(arts) The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
* Joe Hing Lowe
Numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed.
Precise meaning; import.
(obsolete) Esteem; regard.
* Bishop Burnet
(obsolete) valour; also spelled valew
To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work.
To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.
To hold dear.
As verbs the difference between policy and value
is that policy is to regulate by laws; to reduce to order while value is .As a noun policy
is (obsolete) the art of governance; political science or policy can be a contract of insurance.policy
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.''
Etymology 2
From (etyl) police, from (etyl) polizza, fromNoun
(policies)Synonyms
* (number pool) policy racketDerived terms
* policyholderExternal links
* (wikipedia)value
English
Noun
(en noun)Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd, passage=United were value for their win and Rooney could have had a hat-trick before half-time, with Paul Scholes also striking the post in the second half.}}
Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.}}
- An article may be possessed of the highest degree of utility, or power to minister to our wants and enjoyments, and may be universally made use of, without possessing exchangeable value .
- His design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, because they were above any price.
Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
- I establish the colors and principal values by organizing the painting into three values--dark, mediumand light.
- the value''' of a word; the '''value of a legal instrument
- (Mitford)
- (Dryden)
- My relation to the person was so near, and my value for him so great.
- (Spenser)
Synonyms
* (quality that renders something desirable) worthDerived terms
* valuable * valueless * valueness * economic value * face value * note value * par value * time valueVerb
(valu)Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.