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POLICY MAKER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does policy maker mean?
• POLICY MAKER (noun)
The noun POLICY MAKER has 1 sense:
1. someone who sets the plan pursued by a government or business etc.
Familiarity information: POLICY MAKER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who sets the plan pursued by a government or business etc.
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Context example:
policy makers often make the right decision for the wrong reason
Hypernyms ("policy maker" is a kind of...):
important person; influential person; personage (a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events)
Context examples
For information to be useful, not only does it need to be made available at the right time to those who need it such as policy makers, program planners, and health professionals, and patients but it has to be in the right form.
(Information Dissemination, NCI Thesaurus)
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