Policy vs. Concept — 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.

Concepts are defined as abstract ideas or general notions that occur in the mind, in speech, or in thought. They are understood to be the fundamental building blocks of thoughts and beliefs.

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

An abstract idea

A contract of insurance

A general idea or understanding of something

An illegal lottery or numbers game

A plan or original idea

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 unifying idea or theme, especially for a product or service

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

Having an experimental or strikingly different design, especially to test or demonstrate new features

Prudence, shrewdness, or sagacity in practical matters

An abstract and general idea; an abstraction.

A written contract or certificate of insurance.

Understanding retained in the mind, from experience, reasoning and imagination; a generalization (generic, basic form), or abstraction (mental impression), of a particular set of instances or occurrences (specific, though different, recorded manifestations of the concept).

A numbers game.

(generic programming) A description of supported operations on a type, including their syntax and semantics.

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

To conceive; to dream up

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

An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal.

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

An abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances

The grounds of a large country house.

(obsolete) The art of governance; political science.

(obsolete) A state; a polity.

(obsolete) A set political system; civil administration.

(obsolete) A trick; a stratagem.

(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;