Policy vs. Blueprint — What's the Difference?

Policy is a deliberate system of principles to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes. A policy is a statement of intent, and is implemented as a procedure or protocol.

A blueprint is a reproduction of a technical drawing or engineering drawing using a contact print process on light-sensitive sheets. Introduced by Sir John Herschel in 1842, the process allowed rapid and accurate production of an unlimited number of copies.

A course or principle of action adopted or proposed by an organization or individual

A contact print of a drawing or other image rendered as white lines on a blue background, especially such a print of an architectural plan or technical drawing. Also called cyanotype.

A contract of insurance

A mechanical drawing produced by any of various similar photographic processes, such as one that creates blue or black lines on a white background.

An illegal lottery or numbers game

A detailed plan of action.

A plan or course of action, as of a government, political party, or business, intended to influence and determine decisions, actions, and other matters

A model or prototype.

A course of action, guiding principle, or procedure considered expedient, prudent, or advantageous

To make a blueprint of.

Prudence, shrewdness, or sagacity in practical matters

To lay a plan for.

A written contract or certificate of insurance.

A type of paper-based reproduction process producing white-on-blue images, used primarily for technical and architecture's drawings, now largely replaced by other technologies.

A numbers game.

A print produced with this process.

A principle of behaviour, conduct etc. thought to be desirable or necessary, especially as formally expressed by a government or other authoritative body.

A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).

Wise or advantageous conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness.

Any detailed plan, whether literal or figurative.

Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft.

To make a blueprint for.

The grounds of a large country house.

To make a detailed operational plan for.

(obsolete) The art of governance; political science.

See under Print.

(obsolete) A state; a polity.

Something intended as a guide for making something else;

(obsolete) A set political system; civil administration.

Photographic print of plans or technical drawings etc.

(obsolete) A trick; a stratagem.

Make a blueprint of

(obsolete) Motive; object; inducement.

(law)

A contract of insurance.

A document containing or certifying this contract.

(obsolete) An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (no plural)

A number pool lottery

(transitive) To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.

Civil polity.

The settled method by which the government and affairs of a nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public or official administration, as designed to promote the external or internal prosperity of a state.

The method by which any institution is administered; system of management; course.

Management or administration based on temporal or material interest, rather than on principles of equity or honor; hence, worldly wisdom; dexterity of management; cunning; stratagem.

Prudence or wisdom in the management of public and private affairs; wisdom; sagacity; wit.

Motive; object; inducement.

A ticket or warrant for money in the public funds.

The writing or instrument in which a contract of insurance is embodied; an instrument in writing containing the terms and conditions on which one party engages to indemnify another against loss arising from certain hazards, perils, or risks to which his person or property may be exposed. See Insurance.

A method of gambling by betting as to what numbers will be drawn in a lottery; as, to play policy.

To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.

A line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government;

A plan of action adopted by an individual or social group;

Written contract or certificate of insurance;