noun phrase · academic

cultural policy

UK/ˈkʌltʃərəl ˈpɒləsi/US/ˈkʌltʃərəl ˈpɑːləsi/CUL·tur·al POL·i·cy

Band 5-6task2speaking

A government's or institution's set of rules and priorities for culture, including funding and regulations.

Examples

The city needs a clearer cultural policy to support local theatres.

Young artists complained that current cultural policy favours big institutions.

Universities often teach how to analyse cultural policy in media courses.

Band 8 sentence

A coherent cultural policy should balance support for both grassroots initiatives and major institutions.

Collocations

  • national cultural policy
  • cultural policy makers

Word family

policy nouncultural adjectivepolicymaker noun

Common mistakes

culture policycultural policy

policy for culturecultural policy

Say it for a higher band

5policy for culture6culture policy7+cultural policy

Synonyms

cultural strategy

Easily confused

cultural programme

The government launched a cultural programme to support local artists.

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