national policyn.
/ˌnaʃn̩(ə)l ˈpɒlᵻsi/, /ˌnaʃən(ə)l ˈpɒlᵻsi/, U.S. /ˌnæʃən(ə)l ˈpɑləsi/, /ˌnæʃn(ə)l ˈpɑləsi/ 1. As a mass noun: the policies of a national government. As a count noun: a government policy (usually on a specific issue) to be implemented nationwide.
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1674 R. Haines Prevention of Poverty 18 It may be considered, whether that National Policy, when it compasseth wealth and power, be not more honourable than that which in self may be brave.
1780 E. Burke Let. to T. Burgh 1 Jan. in Wks. (1812) V. 168 But then the Minister must have taken it up as a great plan of national policy, and paid with his person in every lodgement of his approach.
1849 Southern Q. Rev. Apr. 556 Want of knowledge may, through the political influence of an individual, result in the establishment of a national policy permanently hurtful.
1933 Planning 1 xii. 8 The adoption after the war of a national system of classified numbering and a policy of rapid grant-aided development opened the way to a national policy for road transport.
1995 N. Hudson Soil Conservation (ed. 3) xiv. 359 There may well be special situations which affect national policy.
2. Canadian Politics. Usually with capital initials. A policy of tariff protection for Canadian manufacturers, effective from 1879 and associated with the Conservative administration of 1878–96. Now historical.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > [noun] > on imported goods > systems of
national policy1870
imperial preference1895
flag discrimination1928
1870 Canad. Illustr. News 26 Mar. 322/2 Dr. Tupper..has acquired a new sense of popularity..by his vigorous advocacy of what he has..called a ‘national policy’.
1878 J. A. Macdonald in Deb. House of Commons (Canada) 7 Mar. 854/2 The welfare of Canada requires the adoption of a National Policy, which, by a judicious readjustment of the tariff, will benefit..the..interests of the Dominion.
1879 Canad. Parl. Compan. & Ann. Reg. x. 149 Bunting, Christopher William... A liberal Conservative and in favor of the National Policy.
1927 Dict. National Biogr. 1912–21 at Laurier, Sir Wilfrid In 1878 the liberals went to the country on the policy of a tariff for revenue, as opposed to the conservative ‘national policy’ of protection.
1992 J. M. Bumsted Peoples of Canada ii. 36 The protective tariff of the National Policy played an important role in encouraging American ‘branch-plant’ investment.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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