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)

• Side
• Margin
• edge
• verge
• border
• laterality
• face
• aspect
• plane
• party
• interest
• cause
• policy
• behalf
• Tactics
• Manoeuvre
• strategy
• diplomacy
• management
• temporization

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of POLICY)

• Decline
• deviate
• revert
• depart
• recede
• return
• back
• retrocede

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.