Definition of harm. 1  transitive verb. : 2  to damage or injure physically or mentally : to cause harm (see 1harm) to No animals were harmed in the making of the film. the national interest â¦ was gravely harmed by this attack â Elmer Davis.
Definition of policy for Students plural policies : a document that contains the agreement made by an insurance company with a person whose life or property is insured
Public Policy Definition: Certain acts or contracts are said to be against public policy if they tend to promote breach of the law, of the policy behind a law or tend to harm the state or its citizens. A condition is against public policy if it is in the interest of the state that it should not be performed. What is contrary to public policy has varied from time to time, and many conditions now upheld which in former days would have been declared to be contrary to the (public) policy of the law.