"policy keyboard" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: policy keyboards [plural]
Etymology: Apparently by analogy with the playing of notes on a musical keyboard. Head templates: {{en-noun}} policy keyboard (plural policy keyboards)
  1. A range of potential policies from which options can be chosen.
    Sense id: en-policy_keyboard-en-noun-SkKLOOw5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1974, Australian Institute of Political Science, Industrial Australia, 1975-2000: Preparing for Change, page 50",
          "text": "They are, in effect, a policy keyboard in which each policy has a primary rationale different from that of fostering technological innovations. Taxation does not serve primarily to encourage invention, for example, but to generate revenue […]",
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          "ref": "2017, Mischa Hansel, Raphaëlle Khan, Mélissa Levaillant, Theorizing Indian Foreign Policy, page 62",
          "text": "These foreign policy goals are not seen as potential contradictions, but as different tunes that can be played on the foreign policy keyboard in any order.",
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