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1.nounA 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."
2.nounWise or advantageous conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness.
3.nounSpecifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft.
4.noun(now chiefly in the plural) The grounds of a large country house.
5.nounThe art of governance; political science.
6.nounA state; a polity.
7.nounA set political system; civil administration.
8.nounA trick; a stratagem.
9.nounMotive; object; inducement.
10.verbTo regulate by laws; to reduce to order.
11.nounA contract of insurance.
12.nounA document containing or certifying this contract.
13.nounAn illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (no plural)
14.nounA number pool lottery