Policies' : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Policies'	by the DICT Development Group
1 result for Policies'
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Policy \Pol"i*cy\, n.; pl. {Policies}. [L. politia, Gr. [?]; cf. F. police, Of. police. See {Police}, n.] 1. Civil polity. [Obs.] 2. 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. The method by which any institution is administered; system of management; course. 4. 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. Prudence or wisdom in the management of public and private affairs; wisdom; sagacity; wit. The very policy of a hostess, finding his purse so far above his clothes, did detect him. --Fuller. 6. Motive; object; inducement. [Obs.] What policy have you to bestow a benefit where it is counted an injury? --Sir P. Sidney. Syn: See {Polity}.