Policy vs. Framework

Policy vs. Framework — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Policy and Framework

Policynoun

A plan or course of action, as of a government, political party, or business, intended to influence and determine decisions, actions, and other matters

American foreign policy.the company's personnel policy.

Frameworknoun

A structure for supporting or enclosing something else, especially a skeletal support used as the basis for something being constructed.

Policynoun

A course of action, guiding principle, or procedure considered expedient, prudent, or advantageous

Honesty is the best policy.

Frameworknoun

An external work platform; a scaffold.

Policynoun

Prudence, shrewdness, or sagacity in practical matters

It is never good policy to speak rashly.

Frameworknoun

A fundamental structure, as for a written work.

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Policynoun

A written contract or certificate of insurance.

Frameworknoun

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality.

Policynoun

A numbers game.

Frameworknoun

(literally) A support structure comprising joined parts or conglomerated particles and intervening open spaces of similar or larger size.

Policynoun

(obsolete) The art of governance; political science.

Frameworknoun

(literally) The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.

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Policynoun

(obsolete) A state; a polity.

Frameworknoun

(figuratively) The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.

Policynoun

(obsolete) A set political system; civil administration.

Frameworknoun

(figuratively) A basic conceptual structure.

These ‘three principles of connexion’ compose the framework of principles in Hume's account of the association of ideas.

Policynoun

(obsolete) A trick; a stratagem.

Frameworknoun

(software engineering) A reusable piece of code (and, sometimes, other utilities) providing a standard environment within which an application can be implemented.

Policynoun

A principle of behaviour, conduct etc. thought to be desirable or necessary, especially as formally expressed by a government or other authoritative body.

The Communist Party has a policy of returning power to the workers.

Frameworknoun

(literally) The identification and categorisation of processes or steps that constitute a complex task or mindset in order to render explicit the tacit and implicit.

Policynoun

Wise or advantageous conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness.

Frameworknoun

a simplified description of a complex entity or process;

the computer program was based on a model of the circulatory and respiratory systems

Policynoun

Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft.

Frameworknoun

the underlying structure;

restoring the framework of the bombed buildingit is part of the fabric of society

Policynoun

The grounds of a large country house.

Frameworknoun

a structure supporting or containing something

Policynoun

(obsolete) Motive; object; inducement.

Policynoun

(law)

Policynoun

A contract of insurance.

Policynoun

A document containing or certifying this contract.

Your insurance policy covers fire and theft only.

Policynoun

(obsolete) An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (no plural)

Policynoun

A number pool lottery

Policyverb

(transitive) To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.

Policynoun

a line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government;

they debated the policy or impolicy of the proposed legislation

Policynoun

a plan of action adopted by an individual or social group;

it was a policy of retributiona politician keeps changing his policies

Policynoun

written contract or certificate of insurance;

you should have read the small print on your policy