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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A contract of insurance
  • A course of action thought to be prudent or tactically advantageous; hence prudence or sagacity
  • A number pool lottery
  • A plan or course of action, especially one of an organization or government
  • A statement of commitment to a broad requirement, often used in an organisation to instruct personnel as to a required outcome (note: whereas "Procedures" describe how a policy is implemented).
  • obsolete An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (''no plural'')
  • Shrewdness or artfulness

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