Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

foreign policy

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.82 in modern English

Syllables: for-eign pol-i-cy
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A government's policy relating to relations with other nations and international organisations.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Used retrospectively, the sum of a leader or government's dealings and relations with other nations.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."
"Bismarck's foreign policy."

Usage

Inflected Forms

foreign policies (plural)

Phrases

foreign affairs Foreign Office

Frequently Paired Words

foreign affairs diplomacy Foreign Office

Antonyms

domestic policy

Questions

What does foreign policy mean?: A government's policy relating to relations with other nations and international organisations.

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