Policy and System

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Policy noun - A way of acting or proceeding.

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System is a synonym for policy in means topic. In some cases you can use "System" instead a noun "Policy", when it comes to topics like plans.

Nearby Words: politic, policing, politics, political, policed

System noun - A method worked out in advance for achieving some objective.

Usage example: if you're going to wrap all these presents in one afternoon, you'll need a system

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Policy is a synonym for system in means topic. You can use "Policy" instead a noun "System", if it concerns topics such as method, scheme.

Nearby Words: systematic, systemic

old	old policy	old system
better	better policy	better system
similar	similar policy	similar system
current	current policy	current system
Other adjectives: standard, simple, actual, entire, massive, strict, social, internal, new, political, military, imperial, different, economic, soviet.

The Chinese government had a distinct policy of a tribute system whereby all who wanted to treat with the Emperor had to submit to be its vassal, a system followed by Dutch traders who came earlier.

Source: Riches to Rags
Given how he knows about the save system, it's quite likely his friendly attitude is an insurance policy to make a potentially murderous player think twice about going through with it.

Source: Nice Guy / Video Games
Some left-leaning Canadians in particular will often display American-bashing attitudes similar to those of western Europeans, and enjoy criticizing the deficiencies of the American welfare state (particularly in contrast to the much-venerated Canadian health care system) or US foreign policy.

Source: Useful Notes / Misplaced Nationalism

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