policy-maker
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.18 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
6
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "American policy-makers reject the idea that a purportedly friendly, free market, democratic Japan could ever become a geopolitical rival."
- "From the briefing room at the State Department to the corridors of Whitehall in London and NATO headquarters in Brussels, a word usually avoided by policy-makers is being uttered ever more frequently to describe events in Kosovo: genocide. […] Policy-makers in the United States and Europe are invoking the word to help provide a legal justification for their military campaign against Serbia."
- "Scientists should become more proactive in providing advice to politicians and policy-makers where proposed new policies involve knowledge they possess from their research. Yet there is often a disconnect between our policy-makers and the scientific community."