Usually means: Rules guiding decisions and actions.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word policies:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. policies: Merriam-Webster
  2. policies, policies: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. policies: Collins English Dictionary
  4. policies: Vocabulary.com
  5. Policies, policies: Wordnik
  6. policies: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. policies: Wiktionary
  8. Policies, policies: Dictionary.com
  9. policies: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Policies: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Policies: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Policies: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. policies: FreeDictionary.org
  14. policies: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. policies: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. policies: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. policies: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. policies: Medical dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (policy)

noun:  A principle of behaviour, conduct etc. thought to be desirable or necessary, especially as formally expressed by a government or other authoritative body and implemented by its actions.
noun:  A document describing such a policy.
noun:  Wise or advantageous conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness.
noun:  (now rare) Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft.
noun:  (Scotland, now chiefly in the plural) The grounds of a large country house.
noun:  (obsolete) The art of governance; political science.
noun:  (obsolete) A state; a polity.
noun:  (obsolete) A set political system; civil administration.
noun:  (obsolete) A trick; a stratagem.
noun:  (obsolete) Motive; object; inducement.
verb:  (transitive) To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.
noun:  (law)
noun:  A contract of insurance.
noun:  A document containing or certifying this contract.
noun:  (obsolete) An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (no plural)
noun:  A number pool lottery
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