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foreign policy

noun foreign policies

  1. countable, uncountable A government's policy relating to relations with other nations and international organisations. 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.
  2. countable, uncountable Used retrospectively, the sum of a leader or government's dealings and relations with other nations. Bismarck's foreign policy.

Opposite: domestic policy

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Opposite: domestic policy

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noun government's policy

Españolpolítica exterior
한국어외교 oegyo
日本語外交 gaikō
中文外交政策 wàijiāo zhèngcè
Kiswahilisera ya kigeni
Portuguêspolítica estrangeira
Françaispolitique extérieure
DeutschAußenpolitik
Italianopolitica estera
Românăpolitică externă
Русскийвне́шняя поли́тика vnéšnjaja polítika
العربيةسياسة خارجية

noun sum of a government's dealings

中文外交政策 wàijiāo zhèngcè
Русскийвне́шняя поли́тика vnéšnjaja polítika
العربيةسياسة خارجية

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@misc{foreign_policy_2026,
  title = {foreign policy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/foreign%20policy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}