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policy keyboard

policy keyboard noun: a range of potential policies from which options can be chosen.

Noun

policy keyboard (plural policy keyboards)

  1. A range of potential policies from which options can be chosen.
    • They are, in effect, a policy keyboard in which each policy has a primary rationale different from that of fostering technological innovations. Taxation does not serve primarily to encourage invention, for example, but to generate revenue […]1974, Australian Institute of Political Science, Industrial Australia, 1975-2000: Preparing for Change, page 50
    • These foreign policy goals are not seen as potential contradictions, but as different tunes that can be played on the foreign policy keyboard in any order.2017, Mischa Hansel, Raphaëlle Khan, Mélissa Levaillant, Theorizing Indian Foreign Policy, page 62

Forms of policy keyboard

pluralpolicy keyboards

Origin of policy keyboard

Apparently by analogy with the playing of notes on a musical keyboard.

Questions about policy keyboard

What does policy keyboard mean?
Policy keyboard means a range of potential policies from which options can be chosen.
What part of speech is policy keyboard?
Policy keyboard is a noun.
What is the plural of policy keyboard?
The plural of policy keyboard is policy keyboards.

Words near policy keyboard in the dictionary

  1. policy holders
  2. policy institute
  3. policy institutes
  4. policy interest rate
  5. policy interest rates
  6. policy keyboard
  7. policy keyboards
  8. policy maker
  9. policy makers
  10. policy mix
  11. policy mixes

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