policy
noun
[ ˈpɒlɪsi ]
• a course or principle of action adopted or proposed by an organization or individual.
• "the government's controversial economic policies"
Similar:
plans,
strategy,
proposed action,
blueprint,
approach,
scheme,
stratagem,
programme,
schedule,
code,
system,
guidelines,
intentions,
notions,
theory,
line,
position,
stance,
attitude,
practice,
custom,
procedure,
wont,
way,
tack,
routine,
matter of course,
style,
pattern,
convention,
mode,
rule,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French policie ‘civil administration’, via Latin from Greek politeia ‘citizenship’, from politēs ‘citizen’, from polis ‘city’.
policy
noun
• a contract of insurance.
• "they took out a joint policy"
• an illegal lottery or numbers game.
• "he swore that he had never played policy in his life"
Origin:
mid 16th century: from French police ‘bill of lading, contract of insurance’, from Provençal poliss(i)a, probably from medieval Latin apodissa, apodixa, based on Greek apodeixis ‘evidence, proof’, from apodeiknunai ‘demonstrate, show’.
