Definitions of police [əˈlis]

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Definition of 'police'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) police
an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.

2.  police
(used with a pl. v.) members of such a force.

3.  police
the regulation and control of a community, esp. for the maintenance of public order, safety, morals, health, etc.

4.  police
the department of a government concerned with this, esp. with the maintenance of order.

5.  police
any body of people employed to keep order, enforce regulations, etc.

6.  police
people who seek to regulate a specified behavior, activity, practice, etc.:
the language police.

7.  police
the cleaning and keeping clean of a military camp, post, etc.

8.  police
the cleanliness of a camp, post, etc.

9. (v.t.) police
to regulate, control, or keep in order by or as if by means of police.

10.  police
to clean and keep clean (a military camp, post, etc.).

Etymology: (1520–30; < MF: government, civil administration, police < LL polītia citizenship, government, for L polītīa; see polity)

Definition of 'police'

Princeton's WordNet

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

Definition of 'police'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) police
an official organization that makes sure people obey the law
a police investigation; Do you think we should call the police?; a member of the border/state/city police

Definition of 'police'

Webster Dictionary

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

Definitions of 'police'

The Roycroft Dictionary

police
Similia similibus.

Definition of 'police'

U.S. National Library of Medicine

1. police
Agents of the law charged with the responsibility of maintaining law and order among the citizenry.

Translation of 'police'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: the men and women whose job is to prevent crime, keep order, see that laws are obeyed etc Call the police!; The police are investigating the matter; (
Afrikaans: polisie	Arabic: شُرْطَه	Bulgarian: полиция
Brazilian: polícia	Czech: policie; policejní	German: die Polizei; Polizei-...
Danish: politi; politi-	Greek: αστυνομία	Spanish: policía
Estonian: politsei	Farsi: افراد پلیس	Finnish: poliisi
French: (de) police	Hebrew: מִשטָרָה	Hindi: पुलिस
Croatian: policija, redarstvo	Hungarian: rendőrség	Indonesian: polisi
Icelandic: lögregla	Italian: polizia; di polizia	Japanese: 警察
Korean: 경찰	Lithuanian: policija	Latvian: policija
Malay: polis	Dutch: politie	Norwegian: politi
Polish: policja, policjanci	Persian: پولیس	Pashto: پوليس
Portuguese: polícia	Romanian: (de) poliţie	Russian: полиция; полицейские
Slovak: polícia; policajný	Slovenian: policija	Serbian: policija
Swedish: polis	Thai: ตำรวจ	Turkish: polis
Taiwanese: 警察	Ukrainian: поліція	Urdu: پولس
Vietnamese: cảnh sát	Chinese: 警察
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