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ZERO-TOLERANCE POLICY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does zero-tolerance policy mean? 

ZERO-TOLERANCE POLICY (noun)
  The noun ZERO-TOLERANCE POLICY has 1 sense:

1. any policy that allows no exceptionplay

  Familiarity information: ZERO-TOLERANCE POLICY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ZERO-TOLERANCE POLICY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any policy that allows no exception

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

a zero-tolerance policy toward pedophile priests

Hypernyms ("zero-tolerance policy" is a kind of...):

policy (a line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government)


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