policy-making

1. 1.

   concerned with policy, not administration

   Similarpolitical

Questions about policy-making

What does policy-making mean?

policy-making means "concerned with policy, not administration".

How many syllables are in policy-making?

policy-making has 5 syllables: po-li-cy--ma-king. The stress falls on "cy-".

Is policy-making a common word?

policy-making 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.