Synonymer

Uttal

  • UttalUS
  • UK:
  • US:
    • IPA: /ˈpɑləsi/
ÖversättningUttal
Substantiv
1.politik {en}
  • Uttal
2.policy
3.offentlighetsprincip {en}

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. (obsolete) The art of governance; political science.
  2. A contract of insurance
  3. (obsolete) A state; a polity.
  4. (obsolete) An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (no plural)
  5. (obsolete) A set political system; civil administration.
  6. A number pool lottery
  7. (obsolete) A trick; a stratagem.
  8. A principle of behaviour, conduct etc. thought to be desirable or necessary, especially as formally expressed by a government or other authoritative body.
  9. Wise or advantageous conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness.
  10. (now, rare) Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft.
  11. (Scotland, now chiefly in the plural) The grounds of a large country house.
  12. (obsolete) Motive; object; inducement.

Verb

  1. (transitive) To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.

Exempel

  • List his discourse of Warre; and you shall heare / A fearefull Battaile rendred you in Musique. / Turne him to any Cause of Pollicy, / The Gordian Knot of it he will vnloose, / Familiar as his Garter [...]
  • 'Tis pollicie, and stratageme must doe / That you affect, and so must you resolue, / That what you cannot as you would atcheiue, / You must perforce accomplish as you may.
  • The Communist Party has a policy of returning power to the workers.
  • These bitter accusations might have been suppressed, had I with greater policy concealed my struggles, and flattered you [...]
  • The very policy of a hostess, finding his purse so far above his clothes, did detect him.
  • Whether he believed himself a god, or only took on the attributes of divinity from motives of policy, is a question for the psychologist, since the historical evidence is indecisive.
  • Next morning was so splendid that as he walked through the policies towards the mansion house despair itself was lulled.
  • What policy have you to bestow a benefit where it is counted an injury?
  • Policying of cities.
  • Your insurance policy covers fire and theft only.

Böjningsformer

Perfektparticippolicied
Imperfektpolicied
Presensparticippolicying
Pluralpolicies
Tredje person singular indicativ presenspolicies

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