policyとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源 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.

名詞

policy (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 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.]

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

   It's company policy that all mobile phones are forbidden in meetings.

2. Wise or advantageous conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness. [from 15th c.]
   • 1639, Thomas Fuller, “King Richard Taken Prisoner in Austria; Sold and Sent to the Emperour; Dearly Ransomed, Returneth Home”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], OCLC 913016526, book III, page 130:

     [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: […]

   • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XI, in Pride and Prejudice, volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton […], OCLC 38659585, page 131:

     These bitter accusations might have been suppressed, had I with greater policy concealed my struggles, and flattered you into the belief of my being impelled by unqualified, unalloyed inclination; […]

3. (now rare) Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft. [from 15th c.]
   • 1589 or 1590, Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta, Act I, lines 12-13:

     Ay, 'policy! that's their profession,

     And not simplicity, as they suggest.

   • 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.25:

     Whether he believed himself a god, or only took on the attributes of divinity from motives of policy, is a question for the psychologist, since the historical evidence is indecisive.

4. (Scotland, now chiefly in the plural) The grounds of a large country house. [from 18th c.]
   • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped

     There was but one thing happened worth narrating; and that is the visit I had of Robin Oig, one of the sons of the notorious Rob Roy. He was sought upon all sides on a charge of carrying a young woman from Balfron and marrying her (as was alleged) by force; yet he stepped about Balquhidder like a gentleman in his own walled policy.

   • 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate 2012, page 36:

     Next morning was so splendid that as he walked through the policies towards the mansion house despair itself was lulled.

5. (obsolete) The art of governance; political science. [14th–18th c.]
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i], pages 69–70:

     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: […]

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.]
   • c. 1588–1593, [William Shakespeare], The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus: […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Edward White & Thomas Millington, […], published 1594, OCLC 222241046, [Act II, scene i]:

     Tis pollicie and ſtratageme must doo / That you affect, and ſo muſt you reſolue, / That what you cannot as you would atchiue, / You muſt perforce accompliſh as you may: […]

9. (obsolete) Motive; object; inducement.
   • c. 1580, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “[The First Booke] I”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Covntesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, OCLC 801077108; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, OCLC 318419127, page 9:

     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?

派生語

派生した語

• → Burmese: ပေါ်လစီ (paula.ci)

動詞

policy (三人称単数 現在形 policies, 現在分詞 policying, 過去形および過去分詞形 policied)

1. (transitive) To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.
   • 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 または 2)”, in The Tvvoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], OCLC 932932554:

     Policying of cities.

語源 2

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

名詞

policy (複数形 policies)

1. (law)
   1. A contract of insurance.
   2. A document containing or certifying this contract.

      Your insurance policy covers fire and theft only.

2. (obsolete) An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (no 複数形)
3. A number pool lottery

同意語

• (number pool) policy racket

派生語

• policyholder