| Definitions of 'police' |
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1. (verb) police, police force, constabulary, law
the force of policemen and officers
"the law came looking for him"
2. (verb) patrol, police
maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol
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| Definitions of 'police' |
Webster 1913 Dictionary |
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1. (noun) police
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. (noun) police
that which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state
3. (noun) police
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. (noun) police
military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison
5. (noun) police
the cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state / a camp as to cleanliness
6. (verb) police
to keep in order by police
7. (verb) police
to make clean; as, to police a camp
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| Definitions of 'police' |
U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. police
Agents of the law charged with the responsibility of maintaining law and order among the citizenry.
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