[pol-uh-see] 
| 1. | a definite course of action adopted for the sake of expediency, facility, etc.: We have a new company policy. |
| 2. | a course of action adopted and pursued by a government, ruler, political party, etc.: our nation's foreign policy. |
| 3. | action or procedure conforming to or considered with reference to prudence or expediency: It was good policy to consent. |
| 4. | sagacity; shrewdness: Showing great policy, he pitted his enemies against one another. |
| 5. | Rare. government; polity. |
[pol-uh-see] | 1. | a document embodying a contract of insurance. |
| 2. | a method of gambling in which bets are made on numbers to be drawn by lottery. |
| 3. | numbers pool (def. 2). |
| pol·i·cy 1 (pŏl'ĭ-sē) n. pl. pol·i·cies
[Middle English policie, art of government, civil organization, from Old French; see police.] |
| pol·i·cy 2 (pŏl'ĭ-sē) n. pl. pol·i·cies
[Obsolete police, from French, contract, bill of lading, from Old French, from Old Italian polizza, alteration of Medieval Latin apodixa, receipt, from Medieval Greek apodeixis, from Greek, proof, from apodeiknunai, to prove : apo-, intensive pref.; see apo- + deiknunai, to show; see deik- in Indo-European roots.] |
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