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police
[ puh-lees ]
noun
- Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- (used with a plural verb) members of such a force:
Several police are patrolling the neighborhood.
- the regulation and control of a community, especially for the maintenance of public order, safety, health, morals, etc.
- the department of the government concerned with this, especially with the maintenance of order.
- any body of people officially maintained or employed to keep order, enforce regulations, etc.
- people who seek to regulate a specified activity, practice, etc.:
the language police.
- Military. (in the U.S. Army)
- the cleaning and keeping clean of a camp, post, station, etc.
- the condition of a camp, post, station, etc., with reference to cleanliness.
verb (used with object)
- to regulate, control, or keep in order by or as if by means of police.
- Military. to clean and keep clean (a camp, post, etc.)
police
/ pəˈliːs /
noun
- the organized civil force of a state, concerned with maintenance of law and order, the detection and prevention of crime, etc
- ( as modifier )
a police inquiry
- functioning as plural the members of such a force collectively
- any organized body with a similar function
security police
- archaic.
- the regulation and control of a community, esp in regard to the enforcement of law, the prevention of crime, etc
- the department of government concerned with this
verb
- to regulate, control, or keep in order by means of a police or similar force
- to observe or record the activity or enforcement of
a committee was set up to police the new agreement on picketing
- to make or keep (a military camp, etc) clean and orderly
Pronunciation Note
Other Words From
- o·ver·po·lice verb (used with object) overpoliced overpolicing
- pre·po·lice adjective
- un·po·liced adjective
- well-po·liced adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of police1
Example Sentences
Moreno said the major told him he summoned him to the police station “to alert me that I can face four charges for his publications.”
Injunctions ban individuals from being around anyone else the police deem gang members even if neither has a criminal record.
There’s no current timeline on when the next chief of police will be hired, Lorson said.
In recent weeks, though, Nucci has been interviewing people who’ve received a ticket and they all claim they were cited after saying something an officer found personally offensive — usually about the police and sometimes quietly to themselves.
In both cases, police appear to have stretched the law far beyond its intended use.
Police officials told the AP that they came out with guns blazing.
Yves Albarello, MP of Seine-et-Marne, said the gunmen told police they were ready to “die as martyrs.”
Smith attended both funerals as a cop and as the husband of Police Officer Moira Smith, who died on 9/11.
But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.
“The Wizard of Watts is not just about police brutality,” he says.
If Mac had been alone he would have made the post by sundown, for the Mounted Police rode picked horses, the best money could buy.
It happened that I didn't stay around those police posts long enough to get familiar with the technical terms for everything.
Aristide picked it up and began to dance and shake his fist at the invisible police.
“To say that you would have more sense than the police, would be a poor compliment,” said the old lady.
A less imaginative man than Aristide would have immediately acquainted the police with his discovery.
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