POLICE

police, police force, constabulary, law

(noun) the force of policemen and officers; “the law came looking for him”

patrol, police

(verb) maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

police pl (plural only)

A civil force granted the legal authority for law enforcement and maintaining public order. [from 18th c.]

(regional, chiefly, US, Caribbean, Scotland) A police officer. [from 19th c.]

(figuratively) People who seek to enforce norms or standards.

(military, slang) The duty of cleaning up.

(obsolete) Policy. [15th-19th c.]

(obsolete) Communal living; civilization. [16th-19th c.]

(now, rare, historical) The regulation of a given community or society; administration, law and order etc. [from 17th c.]

Synonyms

• (an organisation that enforces the law): See Thesaurus:police

• (a police officer): See Thesaurus:police officer

Verb

police (third-person singular simple present polices, present participle policing, simple past and past participle policed)

(transitive) To enforce the law and keep order among (a group).

(ambitransitive, military, slang) To clean up an area.

(transitive, figurative) To enforce norms or standards upon.

Anagrams

• ecilop

Source: Wiktionary

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Po*lice", n. Etym: [F., fr. L. politia the condition of a state, government, administration, Gr. pur, puri. Cf. Policy polity, Polity.]

1. A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough.

2. That which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state.

3. The organized body of civil officers in a city, town, or district, whose particular duties are the preservation of good order, the prevention and detection of crime, and the enforcement of the laws.

4. (Mil.)

Definition: Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison.

5. The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state Police commissioner, a civil officer, usually one of a board, commissioned to regulate and control the appointment, duties, and discipline of the police.

– Police constable, or Police officer, a policeman.

– Police court, a minor court to try persons brought before it by the police.

– Police inspector, an officer of police ranking next below a superintendent.

– Police jury, a body of officers who collectively exercise jurisdiction in certain cases of police, as levying taxes, etc.; -- so called in Louisiana. Bouvier.

– Police justice, or Police magistrate, a judge of a police court.

– Police offenses (Law), minor offenses against the order of the community, of which a police court may have final jurisdiction.

– Police station, the headquarters of the police, or of a section of them; the place where the police assemble for orders, and to which they take arrested persons.

Po*lice", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Policed; p. pr. & vb. n. Policing.]

1. To keep in order by police.

2. (Mil.)

Definition: To make clean; as, to police a camp.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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