policy

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈpɒl.ə.si/|/ˈpɒl.ɪ.si/    美 /ˈpɑ.lə.si/|/ˈpɑl.si/|/ˈpɔl.ə.si/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A principle of behaviour, conduct which an entity (government, organization, etc.) applies or seeks to follow, especially as formally expressed by an authoritative body. countable,uncountable
    — The Communist Party has a policy of returning power to the workers.
  2. A contract of insurance.
  3. A document describing such a policy. countable,uncountable
    — Please print extra copies of this policy and post them where it will be easy for everyone to see.
  4. A document containing or certifying this contract.
    — Your insurance policy covers fire and theft only.
  5. Wise, advantageous, or politic conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness. countable,uncountable
    — [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: […]
  6. An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (no plural) obsolete
  7. Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — I, 'policie? that's their profession, And not simplicity, as they suggest.
  8. A number pool lottery
  9. The grounds of a large country house. Scotland,countable,in-plural,uncountable
    — 1775, Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland section on Aberbrothick Now and then about a gentleman’s house stands a small plantation, which in Scotch is called a policy, but of these there are few, and those few all very young.
  10. The art of governance; political science. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — 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: […]
  11. A state; a polity. countable,obsolete,uncountable
  12. A set political system; civil administration. countable,obsolete,uncountable
  13. A trick; a stratagem. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — Tis pollicie and ſtratageme muſt doo / That you affect, and ſo muſt you reſolue, / That vvhat you cannot as you vvould atchiue, / You muſt perforce accompliſh as you may: […]
  14. Motive; object; inducement. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — 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?
    The New Arcadia
动词 v.
  1. To regulate by laws; to reduce to order. transitive
    — Policying of cities.

词形变化

policies plural policies present,singular,third-person policying participle,present policied participle,past policied past policies plural

词汇关系

近义词
policy racket
衍生词
antipolicy discretionary fiscal policy domestic policy domestic policy council endowment policy exit policy fiscal policy foreign policy honesty is the best policy metapolicy Mexico City policy micropolicy mispolicy monetary policy multipolicy nonpolicy one-child policy open door policy open-door policy ostrich policy policied policy by press release policy economy policy holder policyholding policy institute policy interest rate policy keyboard policyless policymaker policy maker policy-making policymaking policy mix policy pattern policy rate policyscape policy shift policy shop policywise policy wonk privacy policy public policy same-origin policy scorched-earth policy scorched earth policy social policy subpolicy time policy title policy umbrella policy valued policy walk policy policyholder

词源

词源 1
From Middle English policie, from Old French policie, pollicie and police, from Late Latin politia (“citizenship; government”), classical Latin polītīa (in Cicero), from Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeía, “citizenship; polis, (city) state; government”), from πολίτης (polítēs, “citizen”). Doublet of police, polis (“police”), and polity.
词源 2
From Middle French police, from Italian polizza, from Medieval Latin apodissa (“receipt for money”), from Ancient Greek ἀπόδειξις (apódeixis, “proof, declaration”). Doublet of apodixis.
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