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foreign policy

foreign policy noun: a government's policy relating to relations with other nations and international organisations.

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
    • Willing to upend the nation’s postwar role as a bulwark against authoritarianism, he promises to usher in a foreign policy rooted in “America First” transactionalism.2024 December 12, Eric Cortellessa, “Donald Trump 2024 TIME Person of the Year”, in Time, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2024
  2. Used retrospectively, the sum of a leader or government's dealings and relations with other nations.
    • Bismarck's foreign policy.

foreign policy meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Arabic and Indonesian

foreign policy in Tamil

government's policy
வெளியுறவுக்கொள்கை veḷiyuṟavukkoḷkai
sum of a government's dealings
வெளியுறவுக்கொள்கை veḷiyuṟavukkoḷkai

foreign policy in Kannada

ವಿದೇಶ ನೀತಿ, ವಿದೇಶಾಂಗ ನೀತಿ, ವಿದೇಶಿ ನೀತಿ

foreign policy in Arabic

government's policy
سياسة خارجية
sum of a government's dealings
سياسة خارجية

foreign policy in Indonesian

government's policy
kebijakan luar negeri, politik luar negeri

Antonyms of foreign policy

Forms of foreign policy

pluralforeign policies

Questions about foreign policy

What does foreign policy mean?
Foreign policy means a government's policy relating to relations with other nations and international organisations.
What is foreign policy in Tamil?
Foreign policy in Tamil is வெளியுறவுக்கொள்கை (veḷiyuṟavukkoḷkai). See Foreign policy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is foreign policy?
Foreign policy is a noun.
What is the plural of foreign policy?
The plural of foreign policy is foreign policies.

Words near foreign policy in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: foreign policy (page history and authors); foreign policy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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