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foreign policies

foreign policies is the plural of foreign policy.

Meaning of foreign policy

Noun

foreign policy (countable and uncountable, plural foreign policies)

  1. A government's policy relating to relations with other nations and international organisations.
    • WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18
  2. Used retrospectively, the sum of a leader or government's dealings and relations with other nations.
    • Bismarck's foreign policy.

Questions about foreign policies

What is foreign policies the plural of?
Foreign policies is the plural of foreign policy.

Words near foreign policies in the dictionary

  1. foreign moneys
  2. foreign muck
  3. foreign national
  4. foreign nationals
  5. Foreign Office
  6. foreign policies
  7. foreign policy
  8. foreign portfolio investment
  9. foreign portfolio investments
  10. foreign secretaries
  11. foreign secretary

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