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What does policy mean?

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Noun
  1. (obsolete) The art of governance; political science. [14th–18th c.]
  2. (obsolete) A state; a polity. [14th–16th c.]
  3. (obsolete) A set political system; civil administration. [15th–19th c.]
  4. (obsolete) A trick; a stratagem. [15th–19th c.]
  5. A principle of behaviour, conduct etc. thought to be desirable or necessary, especially as formally expressed by a government or other authoritative body. [from 15th c.]
  6. Wise or advantageous conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness. [from 15th c.]
  7. (now rare) Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft. [from 15th c.]
  8. (plural) The grounds of a large country house. [from 18th c.]
  9. (obsolete) Motive; object; inducement.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.
Noun
  1. (law)
    1. A contract of insurance.
    2. A document containing or certifying this contract.
  2. (obsolete) An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (no plural)
  3. A number pool lottery
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