| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | pol·i·cy |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  p l  -s |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. pol·i·cies
1. A written contract or certificate of insurance. 2. A numbers game. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Obsolete police, from French, contract, bill of lading, from Old French, from Old Italian polizza, alteration of Medieval Latin apodixa, receipt, from Medieval Greek apodeixis, from Greek, proof, from apodeiknunai, to prove : apo-, intensive pref.; see apo– + deiknunai, to show; see deik- in Appendix I.
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