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[ noun ] someone who sets the plan pursued by a government or business etc.

Examples

"policy makers often make the right decision for the wrong reason"

Used in print

(Barry Goldwater, "A Foreign Policy for America"...)

And I suggest further that the main cause of the trouble we are in has been the failure of American policy-makers , ever since we assumed free_world leadership in 1945 , to deal with this problem realistically and seriously .

Related terms

important_person

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