Usually means: Guidelines governing decisions and actions.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word policy:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. policy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. policy, policy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. policy, policy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. policy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. policy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Policy, policy: Wordnik
  7. policy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. policy: Wiktionary
  9. policy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. policy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. policy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. policy: Dictionary.com
  13. policy (1), policy (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. policy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Policy (Martha Davis album), Policy (Will Butler album), Policy (disambiguation), Policy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Policy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. policy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. policy: Rhymezone
  19. policy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. policy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Policy: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. policy: Free Dictionary
  23. policy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. policy: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. policy: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. policy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. policy: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. policy: Hacking Lexicon
  2. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  3. policy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. policy: Medical dictionary
  3. Policy: Brain Injury

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. policy: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. policy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Policy: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A principle of behaviour, conduct etc. thought to be desirable or necessary, especially as formally expressed by a government or other authoritative body.
noun:  A document describing such a policy.
noun:  Wise or advantageous conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness.
noun:  (now rare) Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft.
noun:  (Scotland, now chiefly in the plural) The grounds of a large country house.
noun:  (obsolete) The art of governance; political science.
noun:  (obsolete) A state; a polity.
noun:  (obsolete) A set political system; civil administration.
noun:  (obsolete) A trick; a stratagem.
noun:  (obsolete) Motive; object; inducement.
verb:  (transitive) To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.
noun:  (law)
noun:  A contract of insurance.
noun:  A document containing or certifying this contract.
noun:  (obsolete) An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (no plural)
noun:  A number pool lottery

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