English Dictionary

policy

/ˈpɒləsi/

noun

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

The company has a strict policy against workplace harassment.

意味（1）

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

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

意味（2）

Wise or advantageous conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness.

[H]e [Richard I of England] was diſcovered in an inne in Auſtria, becauſe he diſguiſed his perſon not his expenſes; ſo that the very policie of an hoſteſſe, finding his purſe ſo farre above his clothes, did detect him: […]

意味（3）

(now rare) Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft.

Ay, 'policy! that's their profession,

Ay, 'policy! that's their profession, And not simplicity, as they suggest.

意味（4）

(Scotland, now chiefly in the plural) The grounds of a large country house.

There was but one thing happened worth narrating; and that is the visit I had of Robin Oig, one of the sons of the notorious Rob Roy. He was sought upon all sides on a charge of carrying a young woman from Balfron and marrying her (as was alleged) by force; yet he stepped about Balquhidder like a gentleman in his own walled policy.

意味（5）

(obsolete) The art of governance; political science.

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: […]

意味（6）

(obsolete) A state; a polity.

意味（7）

(obsolete) A set political system; civil administration.

意味（8）

(obsolete) A trick; a stratagem.

Tis pollicie and ſtratageme must doo / That you affect, and ſo muſt you reſolue, / That what you cannot as you would atchiue, / You muſt perforce accompliſh as you may: […]

意味（9）

(obsolete) Motive; object; inducement.

I pray you (said he) honest men, what such right have you in me, as not to suffer me to doe with my self what I list? and what pollicie have you to bestow a benefite where it is counted an injury?