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Is policy a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word policy is a Scrabble US word. The word policy is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

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Is policy a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word policy is a Scrabble UK word and has 13 points:

P3O1L1I1C3Y4

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Yes. The word policy is a Words With Friends word. The word policy is worth 15 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

POLICY,

4-letter words (14 found)

CLIP,CLOP,CLOY,COIL,COLY,COPY,LIPO,LOCI,OILY,PILY,PIOY,PLOY,POLY,PYIC,

3-letter words (14 found)

CLY,COL,COP,COY,ICY,LIP,LOP,LOY,OIL,PIC,PLY,POI,POL,YIP,

2-letter words (9 found)

IO,LI,LO,OI,OP,OY,PI,PO,YO,

You can make 38 words from policy according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of policy

policy

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɒləsi/, /ˈpɒlɪsi/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈpɑləsi/

Etymology 1

From Middle French policie, 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”). Compare police and polity.

Noun

policy (countable and uncountable, plural policies)

  1. A principle of behaviour, conduct etc. thought to be desirable or necessary, especially as formally expressed by a government or other authoritative body. [from 15th c.]
  2. Wise or advantageous conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness. [from 15th c.]
  3. (now rare) Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft. [from 15th c.]
  4. (Scotland, now chiefly in the plural) The grounds of a large country house. [from 18th c.]
    • 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.
  5. (obsolete) The art of governance; political science. [14th–18th c.]
  6. (obsolete) A state; a polity. [14th–16th c.]
  7. (obsolete) A set political system; civil administration. [15th–19th c.]
  8. (obsolete) A trick; a stratagem. [15th–19th c.]
  9. (obsolete) Motive; object; inducement.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Burmese: ပေါ်လစီ (paula.ci)
Translations

Verb

policy (third-person singular simple present policies, present participle policying, simple past and past participle policied)

  1. (transitive) To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.

Etymology 2

From Middle French police, from Italian polizza, from Medieval Latin apodissa (“receipt for money”), from Ancient Greek ἀπόδειξις (apódeixis, “proof, declaration”).

Noun

policy (plural policies)

  1. (law)
    1. A contract of insurance.
    2. A document containing or certifying this contract.
  2. (obsolete) An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (no plural)
  3. A number pool lottery
Synonyms
  • (number pool) policy racket
Derived terms
  • policyholder
Translations

Further reading

  • policy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “policy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • “policy”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • policy in Britannica Dictionary
  • policy in Macmillan Collocations Dictionary
  • policy in Sentence collocations by Cambridge Dictionary
  • policy in Ozdic collocation dictionary
  • policy in WordReference English Collocations

Source: wiktionary.org