noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a controversial plan/proposal/policy
▪ the controversial plan to build a new airport
a defence policy
▪ Ministers in Brussels have been discussing a possible European defence policy.
a policy outcome (=what happens when a particular policy is used)
▪ A number of factors affect policy outcomes.
a policy review
▪ The policy review proposed radical changes to the system.
a policy shift
▪ The policy shift was triggered by a sharp increase in violent crime.
a policy statement (=one that explains a government policy)
▪ In his first major policy statement to Parliament he promised to end corruption in public life.
a policy vacuum
▪ There is a policy vacuum on climate change.
a sound policy
▪ The problems of industry will only be solved by sound economic policies.
admissions policy/procedures etc
▪ The college has a very selective admissions policy.
▪ the admissions officer
an economic policy (=the way in which a government manages the economy of a country or area)
▪ Controlling inflation is the main aim of the government’s economic policy.
an insurance policy (=an insurance agreement)
▪ This insurance policy represents excellent value for money.
company policy
▪ It is not company policy to give that information.
conservation measures/policies/issues etc
▪ It is important that nature conservation issues are taken into account.
domestic policy (=policy relating to your own country)
▪ The President’s foreign and domestic policies have been criticized.
education policy (=political plans for managing an education system)
▪ The teaching unions are calling for the government to review its education policy.
endowment policy
espouse a cause/policy etc
▪ He espoused a variety of scientific, social and political causes.
fiscal policy/measure
▪ sound good fiscal policy
foreign policy
▪ America’s foreign policy
formulate a policy/plan/strategy etc
▪ He formulated Labour Party education policy in 1922.
implement a policy/plan/decision etc
▪ We have decided to implement the committee’s recommendations in full.
incomes policyBritish English (= government controls on wages)
▪ Government control of the economy must include an effective incomes policy.
insurance policy
interventionist approach/role/policy
▪ The UN adopted a more interventionist approach in the region.
open-door policy
▪ They’re pushing forward economic reform and an open-door policy.
party policy (=a political party’s official plan or position on important subjects)
▪ There has been a change in party policy.
plank of an argument/policy/campaign etc
▪ the main plank of their argument
▪ a central plank of our policy
policy of non-intervention
▪ The British government may have to abandon its policy of non-intervention.
policy wonks (=people interested in details of government)
▪ These are issues that would only interest policy wonks .
pricing policy
▪ a competitive pricing policy
pursue a policy/strategy
▪ The organization is pursuing a policy of cost cutting.
reverse a policy
▪ She is pressing the government to reverse its policy.
scorched earth policy
take out a policy/injunction/loan etc
▪ Before taking a loan out, calculate your monthly outgoings.
taxation policy
▪ the government’s economic and taxation policy
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
domestic
▪ In his domestic policies, President Kabbah took a number of controversial steps.
▪ All have been principally domestic policies.
▪ However, the key factor has been domestic agricultural policies which protect indigenous agriculture for security or political reasons.
▪ Second, these new sources of instability complicate domestic stabilization policy and may make it less effective.
▪ President Clinton had a lousy May, in both domestic and foreign policy.
▪ In both of these instances policy makers would have to take these developments into account in formulating and applying domestic stabilization policies.
▪ Traditionally, domestic policy was sharply differentiated from foreign policy.
▪ A similarly circular process has been under way in several areas of foreign and domestic policy.
economic
▪ Following the coup the ruling junta made few changes to economic policy.
▪ The debacle of the 1971-3 property boom clearly demonstrated the significant extent to which city development was impacted by national economic policy.
▪ The rise of corporate power is a direct result of governments' actively adopting neoliberal economic policies.
▪ High-level ministers have talked openly about increasing aid to agriculture and shifting economic policy from one of stabilization to one of growth.
▪ There is probably no better example of an industry and a sector in which economic policies are causing so much damage.
▪ Huang was employed at Lippo for nine years before he joined the Commerce Department as deputy assistant secretary for international economic policy.
▪ Rather, the critical determinant of economic policy has been the hidden or not so hidden hand of political priorities.
▪ The Solidarity trade union staged a nationwide day of protests against government economic austerity policies on May 22.
fiscal
▪ Real convergence Despite the relatively good progress on fiscal and monetary policy, progress on real convergence has been poor.
▪ Both ministers said exchange-rate stability would depend on national fiscal policies.
▪ Sterling was linked to gold and the gold standard ensured price stability. Fiscal policy was conservative.
▪ Fourth, by pushing up interest rates, fiscal policy can push up the exchange rate of the currency.
▪ In this context, special interest is attached to the role of fiscal and monetary policy in the generation of cycles.
▪ Its monetary and fiscal policies would short-circuit recessions and promote vigorous growth.
▪ The preceding discussion suggests that the operation of Keynesian fiscal policy should pose few problems.
▪ However, for 14 years this government's thinking on fiscal policy has concentrated on short-term remedies.
foreign
▪ It was essentially a scheme which would have entailed the coordination of foreign and defence policies outside the Treaty of Rome.
▪ The address to the foreign policy group included little that the candidate had not articulated in other forums.
▪ Each of these domestic vulnerabilities translates into a fragile, retrospective foreign policy that, in turn, fuels local frailties.
▪ He has emphasized foreign policy in rare stump appearances.
▪ Theories of international relations influence those who decide foreign policy.
▪ Such a cramped view of foreign policy leaves military pressure as the only plausible means of persuasion.
industrial
▪ Since 1979 privatisation in Britain has emerged as a significant plank of industrial policy.
▪ Since he resigned as defence secretary over the Westland helicopter affair in 1986, he has campaigned for an active industrial policy.
▪ The incoming Socialist government announced its intentions to link industrial policy with planning and macro-policy.
▪ Gordon Brown used it when he talked about the need for an industrial policy.
▪ This example shows that intelligent industrial policy and competition policy must work hand in hand.
▪ In such circumstances, an industrial policy that seeks faster and more efficient rationalization of the sunset industry may be advantageous.
▪ On the other hand Tsongas, another centrist sceptical of big government, espoused an industrial policy which distanced him from Clinton.
▪ Particular attention will be paid to how these were linked to civil research and development and industrial policies.
monetary
▪ Short-term monetary control: what should governments attempt to control? Monetary policy may be off target.
▪ At points this chapter steps outside the traditional boundaries of economics, and discusses some psychological problems in making monetary policy.
▪ Anyway, as elections approached it was not always politically desirable to have a tight monetary policy.
▪ Environmental laws may also slow the effect of monetary policy by lengthening construction periods. 5.
▪ Government also jumped on the bandwagon, first with wage restraint policies and later with restrictive monetary policies to reduce inflationary pressures.
▪ The Bundesbank central council meets tomorrow to debate interest-rate and monetary policy.
▪ Consequently, there is little need to prevent cheating by making the government's announced monetary policy constitutionally binding.
national
▪ A Tory Transport Secretary pledging a national transport policy and oodles of public money for services that don't make money.
▪ Furthermore, he may not be fully in command of national policies.
▪ It also has a major say in academic provision, student welfare, accommodation and national education policy.
▪ And their influence on national policy has been pronounced.
▪ In the case of local politics, should this mean more than just the local implementation of national policy?
▪ Almost all phases of national policy came under attack at the hearings.
▪ Community policies, and expenditures upon them are of course not perfectly substitutable for alternative national policies.
▪ Monroe was an irreconcilable opponent of national policy and a recognized leader of the rebel portion of the white population.
new
▪ Immediately after announcing details of the new industrial policy Singh presented his first budget to the Lok Sabha.
▪ He found that 81 percent of the insurers will write new policies only to consumers whose homes meet strict underwriting guidelines.
▪ Hugh, therefore, had been an initiator of the new policy even before its official promulgation.
▪ Shore challenged the regional and new towns policies of the post-war period which had encouraged economic and population dispersal.
▪ With the new set-aside agricultural policies, there is a possibility that cultivated parks can be put back to pasture.
▪ He failed to inform the State Department or his Secretary of State of the new policy.
▪ However, our role may need to broaden and develop in response to new policies and programmes introduced by Ministers.
▪ Fidelity yesterday announced a new policy prohibiting its managers from discussing specific companies with the media.
public
▪ Local government; Public policy and decision making.
▪ The court also ruled that no public policy bars men from fathering children posthumously.
▪ He submitted that the undercover exercise, lasting as it did for some three months, was contrary to public policy.
▪ But the Clintons would have had more success if they had followed the traditional system for setting public policy.
▪ Bioethicists disagree among themselves, both in the clinical setting and on matters of public policy.
▪ The emphasis will be on explaining and analysing how public policies are made, with the Treasury as the focus of attention.
▪ In our democracy, the making of public policy is usually reserved for duly elected legislative bodies.
regional
▪ Third, there is the number of jobs created directly and indirectly as a result of regional policies.
▪ Fox has voiced support for President Bush's call for a regional energy policy.
▪ But the station was praised for its regional opt-outs policy.
▪ There is now considerable overlap between what district councils are doing and what regional policy is attempting to achieve.
▪ An active regional and social policy.
▪ In other ways the activities of the councils tend to conflict with regional policy and weaken its effects.
▪ It is partly because of that false economics that the Conservatives have never had a regional policy.
social
▪ In contrast to all other social welfare policies, public assistance programmes for the poor are the most controversial.
▪ The absence of any concept of family accounting has resulted in some very misguided ideas about social policies.
▪ To this principle of social policy, add a principle of government.
▪ Is it legitimate social policy to discourage childbearing?
▪ But his officials are stirring up their own controversy over social policy.
▪ He needs to find the courage to take such a stand in the name of decent social policy as well.
▪ The stresses of family life and difficulties in parenting lie in structures of disadvantage and social policies which reinforce inequalities.
▪ Beveridge argued that other social policies were necessary to underpin his insurance scheme.
■ NOUN
company
▪ Much depends on company policy and philosophy.
▪ The official reason was that I accepted a gift from a vendor, something which I was told violated company policy.
▪ This would parallel any company policy on not giving out personal telephone numbers but instead routing calls through the switchboard.
▪ Workshops on the law and company policies.
▪ This review covers not only the individual site needs but also items of group interest and company policy reviews.
▪ Advancement may be accelerated by participation in company training programs to gain a broader knowledge of company policy and operations.
▪ It is also Company policy to encourage the spread of information regarding developments affecting both an employee's workplace and Company wide.
▪ These programs familiarize trainees with the production line, company policies and procedures, and the requirements of the job.
decision
▪ It was in this way that he made many of his policy decisions.
▪ To base a major policy decision on shoddy science has never been acceptable.
▪ This led to battles with senior management who questioned the status of the policy decision to implement the new system.
▪ Those are the personal standards of reference that Dole would bring to policy decisions in the Oval Office.
▪ For already domestic class forces were being invented and manipulated at will to validate policy decisions.
▪ This type of arrangement relieves the firm of the need to make additional credit policy decisions.
▪ The policy decision was to maintain the sterling area, above all in its 1940 form as a zone of exchange control.
▪ On a continuum of possible policy outcomes, locate the preferred policy decision of each group. 3.
defence
▪ Defence budgeting and procurement do not move along different tracks from defence policy as a whole.
▪ But, first, a distinction should be drawn between national grand strategy, Defence policy and current military strategy.
▪ In foreign and defence policy its role is of especial importance.
▪ Labour have opposed our defence policies at every turn.
▪ That is why the Opposition's defence policy is incredible.
▪ On each occasion, however, the currents flowing in world affairs swung Defence policy back to a more balanced Maritime/Continental course.
insurance
▪ Old liability insurance policies that were in effect at the time of the relevant incidents can be valuable.
▪ Companies usually have insurance policies covering theft, he said.
▪ A building society savings account may be held with a second competitor and an insurance policy with a third.
▪ The first one contained an insurance policy, the second a will.
▪ Worst still, she was planning to cash in on Ivor's insurance policies.
▪ The risk was considered such that the Host Committee took out a $ 400 million insurance policy for the helicopter stunt.
▪ This is a form of insurance policy for me.
▪ Taking their caps was his insurance policy.
issue
▪ The third policy issue is of a nature more specific to management development.
▪ The foundation organized thousands of town meetings around the country to pulse people on public policy issues and possible solutions.
▪ We support the priority given to these key policy issues and would again recommend the formula we suggested in 2.2.
▪ Corddry was known for his consistent excellence in reporting on defense and foreign policy issues.
▪ The housing needs of the elderly, in particular, must be a prominent policy issue in years to come.
▪ Explicit presidential discourse on policy issues was exceedingly rare.
▪ Answer: many policy issues admit to no immediately-obvious solution.
▪ With the current economics of nuclear power, this should prove to be a relatively straight forward policy issue.
maker
▪ What approach should regulators and policy makers adopt, and on what basis should they decide?
▪ These policy makers are the ones who decide whether or not to continue a program or to decrease or increase its funding.
▪ But not if policy makers insist on fighting the battles of the past.
▪ Fed policy makers conclude a two-day meeting Wednesday at which most economists expect them to lower the short-term interest rates they control.
▪ The old system had certain advantages for members, investors, and policy makers.
▪ As far as the research institute directors and policy makers of tomorrow.
■ VERB
adopt
▪ The rise of corporate power is a direct result of governments' actively adopting neoliberal economic policies.
▪ There is only one good solution to capital flight: shaky governments must restore confidence by adopting sensible policies.
▪ Their purpose is to influence government to adopt policies favourable to them.
▪ Northern whites tolerated this repression and, in fact, adopted these policies when expedient.
▪ On practically every issue the Comintern found itself in the role of an infallible body which had adopted a manifestly fallible policy.
▪ Many of the proposals outlined there appear extreme and have not been adopted as policy.
▪ They do not want to adopt accounting policies that are liable to land them in front of it.
▪ He also agreed to adopt policies on affirmative action and ethics.
change
▪ Similarly, changing dividend policy to yield more cash for investment needs to be handled with care.
▪ Still, the administration's willingness to change its policy carried symbolic weight.
▪ It is not to change the policy or feel some humility about 12 years of failure.
▪ You must have a majority to change the ward policy.
▪ Anyhow Mercurial Rev Paul, are you trying to tell us that we should change our official devil-worshipping policy?
▪ This means that more people will be vulnerable to age discrimination if employers do not change their policies.
▪ He said the United States was changing its historic policy in the region.
develop
▪ Some local political parties are also appointing working groups to develop election policies.
▪ Analysts assist in developing procedural guidelines and policies governing the development, formulation, and maintenance of the budget.
▪ In many parts of the world, we have developed innovative policies on quality and customer service.
▪ Its services help financial institutions develop privacy policies that are consistent with Gramm-Leach-Bliley.
▪ We have done much to develop regional policies over the past decade.
▪ If the Police Commission approves the helicopter program, the department will develop policies regarding their use.
▪ Age Concern believes that the Department of Health should develop a policy and issue national guidelines on the provision of such care.
▪ The United States can learn from other Western democracies that have developed policies that effectively protect their children from poverty.
formulate
▪ Many have been formulating charging policies for services other than residential and nursing care.
▪ However, they sharply disagreed with the administration over the criteria used in formulating the policy.
▪ His duties are to prepare the estimates of expenditure for all committees of the council after the council have formulated its policy.
▪ That would be a major breakthrough and would certainly assist us in formulating our policy as we move towards government.
▪ It must initiate, formulate and direct general policy.
▪ They formulate policies acceptable to their supporters and provide options for voters and those more directly involved in government to choose from.
▪ I played my own small part in formulating Labour Party policy in this area.
implement
▪ At the end of the day most departments have to be left alone to implement policies.
▪ But while there is agreement on the benefits of this approach, there is not much information on implementing such a policy.
▪ In principle, the National Bank has the function of implementing these policies.
▪ The parties produce manifestos and when elected in a majority seek to implement their policies.
▪ It can only do this if it implements its plans and policies flexibly, rather than according to formalized rules.
▪ When it comes to implementing key settlement policies, local authorities have considerable resources at their disposal.
▪ We need electoral reform so that a minority government with a 100seat advantage can not implement the extremist policies of the Eighties again.
▪ The doctrine of political neutrality seeks to implement it through a policy of neutrality.
pursue
▪ The rest of the media reflected this view of an activist President keenly pursuing a policy he deeply believed in.
▪ At other times, it has pursued a policy of letting the pound float.
▪ Some Guardians pursued the new policy more vigorously than others.
▪ They will vigorously pursue their policies to combat drug trafficking and misuse of drugs, nationally and internationally.
▪ Many councils have investigated, and some have actually pursued, such policies of privatisation, or contracting out.
▪ The Government have pursued policies which have added to and certainly not loosened women's shackles.
▪ It is only to be regretted that the Committee has not pursued this policy with sufficient boldness and consistency.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
adopt an approach/policy/attitude etc
▪ Can a school board adopt a policy prohibiting dancing at school?
▪ He also agreed to adopt policies on affirmative action and ethics.
▪ It is essential that these countries, too, adopt policies that will help to protect the Ozone Layer.
▪ It is very hard convincing powers like the World Bank to adopt policies that truly help the poorest.
▪ No-Layoff Policies Perhaps the best way to secure union cooperation is to adopt a policy of no layoffs.
▪ Their purpose is to influence government to adopt policies favourable to them.
▪ This structure can neither impose law upon its members nor force one of them to adopt a policy with which it disagrees.
▪ Ultimately, planners adopted a policy of non-violence.
bring forward legislation/plans/policies etc
▪ Following assessment of the responses to our discussion paper, we will bring forward legislation to achieve this.
▪ Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke wants to bring forward plans to change the law in the new year.
▪ It will bring forward legislation in the coming parliamentary session to introduce student loans, partially replacing grants, from autumn 1990.
comprehensive insurance/cover/policy
▪ At the moment few organizations have comprehensive policies or programs of team rewards in place.
▪ Drive defensively and have comprehensive insurance.
▪ Fully comprehensive insurance, maintenance and servicing costs etc. are also not included.
▪ One manager told me it would be more economic to give everyone comprehensive cover.
decision maker/policy maker/peacemaker etc
decision making/policy making
exam-setter/policy-setter etc
stop-go approach/policies etc
▪ The uncertainty of such stop-go policies arguably reduced business confidence and discouraged investment.
third party insurance/cover/policy
▪ Members of the scheme also benefit from a third party insurance, for a premium of £2 a year.
▪ With some landowners now looking towards insisting on third party cover for climbers, insurance is increasingly looking indispensable.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A new ruler might adopt a policy of drastically cutting back oil production in order to boost prices.
▪ Few journalists liked Reagan's policies.
▪ I make it my policy not to gossip.
▪ It is not our policy to reveal our clients' names.
▪ Most large companies these days operate an equal opportunities policy.
▪ The Cuban revolution resulted in a reassessment of Washington's policy towards the Third World generally.
▪ the government's policy on Europe
▪ US foreign policy
▪ Your homeowner's policy probably doesn't cover damage to your house from mudslides.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Evaluations of policies are conducted through research and expert analysis supported by the Presidium's administrative staff.
▪ McBride can put his luck down to criticism from scribes down south earlier in the season, rather than bad selection policy.
▪ On the other hand, not every organization needs a formal policy in order to be prepared.
▪ Tax policy would be ruled by stubborn one-third minorities, many among them cruising for policy payoffs to drop their opposition.
▪ The only exception to this new policy would be Visa cards.