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traditional policy

British  

noun

  1. a life assurance policy in which the policyholder's premiums are paid into a general fund and his investment benefits are calculated according to actuarial formulae Compare unit-linked policy

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The site also retains the seemingly traditional policy of requiring that most its information derive from reliable secondary sources such as newspapers, not primary sources like an individual’s social media posts.

From Slate • Oct. 26, 2023

House of Lords issued a report that questioned why nudges were being favored over more traditional policy tools, like regulation.

From Salon • Mar. 22, 2022

Senior administration officials have been mulling the cut since last year, although a person briefed on the planning said that it had not been vetted by the National Security Council’s traditional policy deliberation process.

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2020

All these factors combined to bring major changes in the traditional policy of encouraging immigration.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2016

To the French people it seemed that Prussia, The Hohenzollern candidature. barely mistress of Germany, was reviving against France the traditional policy of the Habsburgs.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various