policy

policy is a 6-letter English word with 13 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Civil polity. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Civil polity.
2. noun. The settled method by which the government and affairs of a nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public or official administration, as designed to promote the external or internal prosperity of a state.
3. noun. The method by which any institution is administered; system of management; course.
4. noun. Management or administration based on temporal or material interest, rather than on principles of equity or honor; hence, worldly wisdom; dexterity of management; cunning; stratagem.
5. noun. Prudence or wisdom in the management of public and private affairs; wisdom; sagacity; wit.
6. noun. Motive; object; inducement.
7. transitive verb. To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.
8. noun. A ticket or warrant for money in the public funds.
9. noun. The writing or instrument in which a contract of insurance is embodied; an instrument in writing containing the terms and conditions on which one party engages to indemnify another against loss arising from certain hazards, perils, or risks to which his person or property may be exposed. See Insurance.
10. noun. A method of gambling by betting as to what numbers will be drawn in a lottery; as, to play policy.
11. noun. a plan of action adopted by an individual or social group

    "it was a policy of retribution"

    "a politician keeps changing his policies"

12. noun. written contract or certificate of insurance

    "you should have read the small print on your policy"

    Synonyms: insurance

13. noun. a line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government

    "they debated the policy or impolicy of the proposed legislation"

Synonyms

insurance

Common word forms

policier, policies

Words from these letters

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