Usually means: Set of beliefs or principles.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. doctrine: Merriam-Webster
  2. doctrine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. doctrine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. doctrine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. doctrine: Vocabulary.com
  6. Doctrine: Wordnik
  7. doctrine: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. doctrine: Wiktionary
  9. doctrine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. doctrine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. doctrine: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. doctrine: Dictionary.com
  13. doctrine: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. doctrine: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Doctrine (PHP), Doctrine (Pestilence album), Doctrine (album), Doctrine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Doctrine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. doctrine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. doctrine: Rhymezone
  19. doctrine, doctrine (de), doctrine (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. doctrine: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. doctrine: FreeDictionary.org
  22. doctrine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. doctrine: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. doctrine: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. doctrine: Wordnik
  26. doctrine: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. doctrine: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. doctrine: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. DOCTRINE: Accounting Glossary
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. doctrine: Legal dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. doctrine: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. doctrine: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. doctrine: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (countable) A belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters.
noun:  (countable and uncountable) The body of teachings of an ideology, most often a religion, or of an ideological or religious leader, organization, group, or text.
noun:  (countable) A self-imposed policy governing some aspect of a country's foreign relations, especially regarding what sort of behavior it will or will not tolerate from other countries.

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