policy

policy

englanti
  1. käytäntö, menettelytapa, toimintapolitiikka, politiikka

  2. vakuutuskirja

Synonyymisanakirja

policy

politiikka, linja, aktivismi, naapuria köyhdyttävä politiikka, naapuria köyhdyttävä strategia, toimintasuunnitelma, keskittämispolitiikka, laajenemispyrkimysten estäminen, patoamispolitiikka.

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Englannin sanakirja

policy (englanti > suomi)

  1. politiikka, linja

  2. linja, politiikka

  3. vakuutuskirja

policy englanniksi

  1. puhekieltä The art of governance; political science. (defdate)

  2. a. 1616, (w), Henry V, I.1:

  3. 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 (..)
  4. puhekieltä A state; a polity. (defdate)

  5. puhekieltä A set political system; civil administration. (defdate)

  6. puhekieltä A trick; a stratagem. (defdate)

  7. a. 1594, (w), Titus Andronicus:

  8. '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.
  9. A principle of behaviour, conduct etc. thought to be desirable or necessary, especially as formally expressed by a government or other authoritative body. (defdate)

  10. The Communist Party has a policy of returning power to the workers.

  11. wise Wise or advantageous conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness. (defdate)

  12. 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition (1995), page 140:

  13. These bitter accusations might have been suppressed, had I with greater policy concealed my struggles, and flattered you (..)
  14. Fuller

  15. The very policy of a hostess, finding his purse so far above his clothes, did detect him.
  16. puhekieltä Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft. (defdate)

  17. 1946, (w), History of Western Philosophy, I.25:

  18. 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.
  19. puhekieltä The grounds of a large country house. (defdate)

  20. 1955, (w), The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate 2012, page 36:

  21. Next morning was so splendid that as he walked through the policies towards the mansion house despair itself was lulled.
  22. puhekieltä Motive; object; inducement.

  23. Sir Philip Sidney

  24. What policy have you to bestow a benefit where it is counted an injury?
  25. puhekieltä To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.

  26. Francis Bacon

  27. Policying of cities.''
  28. puhekieltä

  29. A contract of insurance.

  30. A document containing or certifying this contract.

  31. Your insurance policy covers fire and theft only.

  32. puhekieltä An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (no plural)

  33. A number pool lottery

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