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policy-maker

policy-maker is the alternative form of policymaker.

Meaning of policymaker

Noun

policymaker (plural policymakers)

  1. One involved in the formulation of policies, especially politicians, lobbyists, and activists.
    • The choice for vice president is of much more than a junior campaign partner. The nation is deciding on a powerful leader and policymaker who will not be vetted by Congress.2016 July 11, Julian Zelizer, “The vice presidency is no longer a joke”, in CNN

Forms of policy-maker

pluralpolicy-makers

Questions about policy-maker

What is policy-maker the alternative form of?
Policy-maker is the alternative form of policymaker.

Words near policy-maker in the dictionary

  1. policy rates
  2. policy shop
  3. policy shops
  4. policy wonk
  5. policy wonks
  6. policy-maker
  7. policy-makers
  8. policy-making
  9. policyholder
  10. policyholders
  11. policyholding

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Adapted from Wiktionary: policy-maker (page history and authors); policymaker (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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