Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A written contract by which a person, company, or party engages to pay a certain sum on certain contingencies, as in the case of fire or shipwreck, in the event of death, etc., on the condition of receiving a fixed sum or percentage on the amount of the risk, or certain periodical payments. See
insurance . - noun A ticket or warrant for money in the public funds.
- noun A form of gambling in which bets are made on numbers to be drawn by lottery. [U. S.]
- To reduce to order; regulate by laws; police.
- noun Polity; administration; public business.
- noun Object or course of conduct, or the principle or body of principles to be observed in conduct; specifically, the system of measures or the line of conduct which a ruler, minister, government, or party adopts and pursues as best for the interests of the country, as regards its foreign or its domestic affairs: as, a spirited foreign policy; the commercial policy of the United States; a policy of peace; public policy.
- noun Prudence or wisdom in action, whether public or private; especially, worldly wisdom: as, honesty is the best policy.
- noun In Scotland, the pleasure-grounds around a nobleman's or gentleman's country house.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.
- noun obsolete Civil polity.
- noun 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.
- noun The method by which any institution is administered; system of management; course.
- noun 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.
- noun Prudence or wisdom in the management of public and private affairs; wisdom; sagacity; wit.
- noun obsolete Motive; object; inducement.
- noun A ticket or warrant for money in the public funds.
- noun The writing or instrument in which a contract of insurance is embodied; an instrument in writing containing the terms and conditions on which one party engages to indemnify another against loss arising from certain hazards, perils, or risks to which his person or property may be exposed. See
Insurance . - noun A method of gambling by betting as to what numbers will be drawn in a lottery.
- noun a policy that shows by its form that the assured has a real, substantial interest in the matter insured.
- noun one in which the value of the goods or property insured is not mentioned.
- noun a book to contain a record of insurance policies.
- noun one to whom an insurance policy has been granted.
- noun a gambling place where one may bet on the numbers which will be drawn in lotteries.
- noun one in which the value of the goods, property, or interest insured is specified.
- noun a policy that shows on the face of it that the contract it embodies is a pretended insurance, founded on an ideal risk, where the insured has no interest in anything insured.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
contract ofinsurance - noun obsolete An
illegal dailylottery in late nineteenth and early twentiethcentury USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (no plural) - noun A number pool lottery
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government
- noun a plan of action adopted by an individual or social group
- noun written contract or certificate of insurance
Etymologies
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Examples
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If Greek thought gives us no guidance in foreign policy, it is no more helpful, except very indirectly, in another difficult region, that of _industrial policy_.
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In general, the healthier you are, the better the price you will get by buying a term policy the conventional way.
Would You Buy a Life-Insurance Policy From This Machine? Leslie Scism 2011
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Coverage of $250,000 each can be obtained on a term policy for a total of about $120 per month, he says.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed LARRY MacDONALD 2012
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Parents can get life insurance for their children in the form of a term policy of five or 10 years, for example or a universal policy, which locks in a rate permanently and has no end-date.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Shelley White 2011
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Sounds like a change in policy is just what we need to weed out you lose cannons and get you the psychotherapy you so clearly need!
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As an interesting aside, I've never met anyone who actually bought a term policy, checked around to get the cost of a permanent policy with the same death benefit, and then invested the difference in a mutual fund every month.
Pamela Yellen: An Unexpected 'Orman-Ramsey Vise' Now Squeezes Millions of Aging Americans Pamela Yellen 2011
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Obama's behavior on the Gaza flotilla hardly deserves the label policy, much less strategy.
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The reason they are similar in policy is because they are both democrats duh (who disagreed on only 2 or 3 legislative votes).
Blitzer: White House hopefuls worlds apart on the issues 2008
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The same kind of hatred for the United States and its neocon Latin American policy is now sweeping through South and Central America.
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Obama's behavior on the Gaza flotilla hardly deserves the label policy, much less strategy.
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