policymaker
noun
pol·i·cy·mak·er
ˈpä-lə-sē-ˌmā-kər 
variants
or less commonly policy maker
or policy-maker
plural policymakers also policy makers or policy-makers
: someone who is responsible for or involved in establishing policy
economic policymakers
He had been a policymaker under four Republican and Democratic Presidents and had spent years on Capitol Hill fencing with congressional committees and lobbying for votes.—
William Greider
William GreiderExamples of policymaker in a Sentence
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The Commerce Department on Friday is scheduled to release the 150-page regulation, which agency officials have outlined to advocacy groups and policymakers on Capitol Hill.
—David Kocieniewski / Bloomberg, TIME, 26 Apr. 2024
The dashboard designed to inform policymakers, parents and community members gives insights specific to Texas’ early learning spaces, including Early Head Start, Head Start, private child care and public pre-K enrollment.
—Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Apr. 2024
The last caveat was the kind that policymakers typically want to strip out, but Hayden wisely put it in.
—David V. Gioe, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
That should have been clear to American policymakers.
—Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2024
The Census Bureau began the survey at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic to provide policymakers with near real-time data on how Americans are doing.
—Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2024
But the pressure of advising world leaders and policymakers on their economic concerns, paired with the task of leading America’s biggest bank, amounts to an extraordinary amount of responsibility for the man at the top.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2024
Iran has been under severe economic restrictions since the Trump administration abandoned the nuclear deal reached by President Barack Obama, and that gives policymakers little room to operate in the face of new emergencies.
—Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2024
Fed Chair Jerome Powell has said that policymakers want to see more evidence that inflation is headed toward their 2% goal.
—Krystal Hur, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
David Kocieniewski / Bloomberg, TIME, 26 Apr. 2024
The dashboard designed to inform policymakers, parents and community members gives insights specific to Texas’ early learning spaces, including Early Head Start, Head Start, private child care and public pre-K enrollment.
—Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Apr. 2024
The last caveat was the kind that policymakers typically want to strip out, but Hayden wisely put it in.
—David V. Gioe, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
That should have been clear to American policymakers.
—Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2024
The Census Bureau began the survey at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic to provide policymakers with near real-time data on how Americans are doing.
—Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2024
But the pressure of advising world leaders and policymakers on their economic concerns, paired with the task of leading America’s biggest bank, amounts to an extraordinary amount of responsibility for the man at the top.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2024
Iran has been under severe economic restrictions since the Trump administration abandoned the nuclear deal reached by President Barack Obama, and that gives policymakers little room to operate in the face of new emergencies.
—Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2024
Fed Chair Jerome Powell has said that policymakers want to see more evidence that inflation is headed toward their 2% goal.
—Krystal Hur, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
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