policy vs program

policy

noun
  • Wise or advantageous conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness. 

  • The grounds of a large country house. 

  • A document containing or certifying this contract. 

  • A principle of behaviour, conduct etc. thought to be desirable or necessary, especially as formally expressed by a government or other authoritative body. 

  • A number pool lottery 

  • A contract of insurance. 

verb
  • To regulate by laws; to reduce to order. 

program

noun
  • A particular mindset or method of doing things. 

  • A set of principle goals which are supported by a political party or individual candidate 

  • A set of structured activities. 

  • A leaflet listing information about a play, game or other activity. 

  • A performance of a show or other broadcast on radio or television. 

  • A software application, or a collection of software applications, designed to perform a specific task. 

verb
  • To enter a program or other instructions into (a computer or other electronic device) to instruct it to do a particular task. 

  • To develop (software) by writing program code. 

  • To schedule the programming; to determine what will be broadcast. 

  • To put together the schedule of an event. 

  • To cause to automatically behave in a particular way. 

How often have the words policy and program occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )