policy

  1. Noun.  (obsolete) The art of governance; political science. (defdate, 14th-18th c.) .
  2. Noun.  (obsolete) A state; a polity. (defdate, 14th-16th c.) .
  3. Noun.  (obsolete) A set political system; civil administration. (defdate, 15th-19th c.) .
  4. Noun.  (obsolete) A trick; a stratagem. (defdate, 15th-19th c.) .
  5. Noun.  A principle of behaviour, conduct etc. thought to be desirable or necessary, especially as formally expressed by a government or other authoritative body. (defdate, from 15th c.) .
  6. Noun.  Wise or advantageous conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness. (defdate, from 15th c.) .
  7. Noun.  (context, now) Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft. (defdate, from 15th c.) .
  8. Noun.  A contract of insurance.
  9. Noun.  (obsolete) An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (''no plural'').
  10. Noun.  A number pool lottery.

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