bell notificationshomepageloginedit profileclubsdmBox

Search word meanings:

Word Meanings - POLICY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Civil polity. 2. The settled method by which the government and affairs of a nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public or official administration, as designed to promote the external or internal prosperity of a state. 3. The method

Additional info about word: POLICY

1. Civil polity. 2. The settled method by which the government and affairs of a nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public or official administration, as designed to promote the external or internal prosperity of a state. 3. The method by which any institution is administered; system of management; course. 4. Management or administration based on temporal or material interest, rather than on principles of equity or honor; hence, worldly wisdom; dexterity of management; cunning; stratagem. 5. Prudence or wisdom in the management of public and private affairs; wisdom; sagacity; wit. The very policy of a hostess, finding his purse so far above his clothes, did detect him. Fuller. 6. Motive; object; inducement. What policy have you to bestow a benefit where it is counted an injury Sir P. Sidney. Syn. -- See Polity.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of POLICY)

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of POLICY)

Related words: (words related to POLICY)

  • CAUSEFUL
    Having a cause.
  • VERGER
    One who carries a verge, or emblem of office. Specifically: -- An attendant upon a dignitary, as on a bishop, a dean, a justice, etc. Strype. The official who takes care of the interior of a church building.
  • MARGINALIA
    Marginal notes.
  • PLANE TREE
    See PLANE
  • REVERT
    To change back. See Revert, v. i. To revert a series , to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged
  • PARTY
    1. A part or portion. "The most party of the time." Chaucer. 2. A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided
  • MARGINALLY
    In the margin of a book.
  • CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
    Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
  • MARGINAL
    1. Of or pertaining to a margin. 2. Written or printed in the margin; as, a marginal note or gloss.
  • DEPARTURE
    The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
  • STRATEGY
    1. The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship. 2. The use of stratagem or artifice.
  • DEPARTMENT
    1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's
  • VERGETTE
    Divided by pallets, or pales; paly. W. Berry.
  • RETURNLESS
    Admitting no return. Chapman.
  • DEPARTMENTAL
    Pertaining to a department or division. Burke.
  • RECEDE
    1. To move back; to retreat; to withdraw. Like the hollow roar Of tides receding from the instituted shore. Dryden. All bodies moved circularly endeavor to recede from the center. Bentley. 2. To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist;
  • VERGEBOARD
    The ornament of woodwork upon the gable of a house, used extensively in the 15th century. It was generally suspended from the edge of the projecting roof , and in position parallel to the gable wall. Called also bargeboard.
  • PLANETULE
    A little planet. Conybeare.
  • INTERESTED
    1. Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited; as, an interested listener. 2. Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness.
  • MARGINATED
    See A
  • DISINTERESTING
    Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
  • UNINTERESTED
    1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.
  • IMBORDER
    To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
  • HYDROBIPLANE
    A hydro-aëroplane having two supporting planes.
  • IMPOLICY
    The quality of being impolitic; inexpedience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bads policy; as, the impolicy of fraud. Bp. Horsley.
  • POURPARTY
    A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.
  • PRECEDENTLY
    Beforehand; antecedently.
  • MISPOLICY
    Wrong policy; impolicy.

 

Back to top