policy change

1. 1.

   a major change in attitude or principle or point of view

   “an about-face on foreign policy”

   Synonymsabout-facevolte-facereversal

   Broaderchange

   Narrowerundoing

Questions about policy change

What does policy change mean?

policy change means "a major change in attitude or principle or point of view".

What is another word for policy change?

Close synonyms include about-face, volte-face, reversal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is policy change a common word?

policy change is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.