zero-tolerance policy

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   any policy that allows no exception

   “a zero-tolerance policy toward pedophile priests”

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Questions about zero-tolerance policy

What does zero-tolerance policy mean?

zero-tolerance policy means "any policy that allows no exception".

Is zero-tolerance policy a common word?

zero-tolerance policy 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.