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

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

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

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

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

To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.

A contract of insurance.

A document containing or certifying this contract.

An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (no plural)

A number pool lottery