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A rule someone wrote so nobody has to decide twice — or feel anything once.
means A definite course of action or set of principles adopted by a government, organization, or individual to guide decisions (and, in insurance, the contract itself).
from From the Old French 'policie,' meaning civil administration or government, which traces back to Latin 'politia,' a borrowing of Greek 'politeia' — citizenship, the running of a city-state — built on 'polis,' the city, the same root that gives us 'politics' and 'police.' The insurance sense, oddly, may come from a different door: a separate Italian word 'polizza' (a receipt or certificate), possibly from Latin 'apodissa' via Greek 'apodeixis,' meaning proof. Two streams that look identical in English but likely sprang from different springs.
- word root
- From Greek polis, the same root as police
- insurance trick
- Your insurance contract is literally called a policy
- famous failure
- Pirates' Code was famously more guidelines than actual rules
- hidden power
- Most policies are written by people you'll never meet
affordable care act — u.s. healthcare law passed 2010, covers 21 million americans
one child policy — china's population control law 1980-2015, affected 400 million births
new deal — franklin d. roosevelt's depression recovery program, 1933-1939
zero covid policy — china's strict lockdown strategy 2020-2022, ended after protests