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policy
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?p?l?si/, /?p?l?si/
- (US) IPA(key): /?p?l?si/
Etymology 1
From Middle French policie, from Late Latin politia (“citizenship; government”), classical Latin pol?t?a (in Cicero), from Ancient Greek ???????? (politeía, “citizenship; polis, (city) state; government”), from ??????? (polít?s, “citizen”). Compare police and polity.
Noun
policy (countable and uncountable, plural policies)
- 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.]
- Wise or advantageous conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness. [from 15th c.]
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition (1995), page 140:
- These bitter accusations might have been suppressed, had I with greater policy concealed my struggles, and flattered you […]
- 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre
- The very policy of an hostess, finding his purse so far above his clothes, did detect him.
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition (1995), page 140:
- (now rare) Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft. [from 15th c.]
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.25:
- 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.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.25:
- (Scotland, now chiefly in the plural) The grounds of a large country house. [from 18th c.]
- 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate 2012, page 36:
- Next morning was so splendid that as he walked through the policies towards the mansion house despair itself was lulled.
- 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate 2012, page 36:
- (obsolete) The art of governance; political science. [14th–18th c.]
- a. 1616, William Shakespeare, Henry V, I.1:
- 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 […]
- a. 1616, William Shakespeare, Henry V, I.1:
- (obsolete) A state; a polity. [14th–16th c.]
- (obsolete) A set political system; civil administration. [15th–19th c.]
- (obsolete) A trick; a stratagem. [15th–19th c.]
- a. 1594, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus:
- '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.
- a. 1594, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus:
- (obsolete) Motive; object; inducement.
- What policy have you to bestow a benefit where it is counted an injury?
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Burmese: ??????? (paula.ci)
Translations
Verb
policy (third-person singular simple present policies, present participle policying, simple past and past participle policied)
- (transitive) To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.
Etymology 2
From Middle French police, from Italian polizza, from Medieval Latin apodissa (“receipt for money”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (apódeixis, “proof, declaration”)
Noun
policy (plural policies)
- (law)
- A contract of insurance.
- A document containing or certifying this contract.
- (obsolete) An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (no plural)
- A number pool lottery
Synonyms
- (number pool) policy racket
Derived terms
- policyholder
Translations
Further reading
- policy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- policy at OneLook Dictionary Search
- policy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
policy From the web:
- what policy encouraged the growth of american
- what policy is the berlin airlift an example of and why
interpellate
English
Etymology
From Latin interpell?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??n.t??.?p?l.e?t/, /?n.?t??.p?.?le?t/
- Homophone: interpolate (some pronunciations)
Verb
interpellate (third-person singular simple present interpellates, present participle interpellating, simple past and past participle interpellated)
- (obsolete) To interrupt (someone) so as to inform or question (that person about something).
- (philosophy) To address (a person) in a way that presupposes a particular identification of them; to give (a person) an identity (which may or may not be accurate).
- 1996, The Cambridge History of American Literature, volume 8, Poetry and criticism, 1940-1995 (edited by Sacvan Bercovitch), page 408:
- […] a Master of Ceremonies' words "Ladies and gentlemen" […] interpellates those being addressed as an audience, and one that is differentiated by gender.
- 2002, Marianne Jørgensen, Louise J. Phillips, Discourse Analysis As Theory and Method, page 41:
- […] the question may be whether the individual should let herself be interpellated as a feminist, a Christian or a worker. Perhaps all of these possibilities seem attractive, but they point in different directions […]
- 2009, Samia Bazzi, Arab News and Conflict: A Multidisciplinary Discourse Study:
- […] whereas the Palestinian subjects are interpellated as: the martyr... a young Palestinian... a Palestinian teenager.
- 1996, The Cambridge History of American Literature, volume 8, Poetry and criticism, 1940-1995 (edited by Sacvan Bercovitch), page 408:
- (transitive, chiefly politics) To question (someone) formally concerning official or governmental policy or business.
Derived terms
- interpellator
- interpellation
Translations
See also
- interpolate
- interpel
Anagrams
- pantellerite
Italian
Verb
interpellate
- second-person plural present indicative of interpellare
- second-person plural imperative of interpellare
- feminine plural of interpellato
Latin
Verb
interpell?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of interpell?
interpellate From the web:
- interpellate meaning
- what does interpellation mean
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- what does interpolated mean in english
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