policy-maker

plural policy-makers

1. alternativeAlternative form of policymaker.

   American policy-makers reject the idea that a purportedly friendly, free market, democratic Japan could ever become a geopolitical rival.

   1995 November 20, Christopher Layne, “Be Prepared to Contain the Carthage of the 1990s […]”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Nov 2020

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   From the briefing room at the State Department to the corridors of Whitehall in London and NATO headquarters in Brussels, a word usually avoided by policy-makers is being uttered ever more frequently to describe events in Kosovo: genocide. […] Policy-makers in the United States and Europe are invoking the word to help provide a legal justification for their military campaign against Serbia.

   1999 April 4, Neil A. Lewis, “A Word Bolsters Case for Allied Intervention”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Jul 2017

   Scientists should become more proactive in providing advice to politicians and policy-makers where proposed new policies involve knowledge they possess from their research. Yet there is often a disconnect between our policy-makers and the scientific community.

   2013 November 4, Michael W Elves, Ian Gibson, “What is the scientist's role in society and how do we teach it?”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2013