Definitions for police
pəˈlis; ˈpoʊ lis; ˈdi trɔɪt; ˈsi mɛnt; ˈsi gɑr; ˈgɪt ɑr; ˈɪn ʃʊər əns; ˈʌm brɛl ə; ˈaɪ diəpo·lice

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. police, police force, constabulary, lawverb

   the force of policemen and officers

   "the law came looking for him"

2. patrol, policeverb

   maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. policenoun

   Policy.

2. policenoun

   Communal living; civilization.

3. policenoun

   The regulation of a given community or society; administration, law and order etc.

4. policenoun

   A civil force granted the legal authority to enforce the law and maintain public order.

5. policenoun

   A police officer.

6. policeverb

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

   Extra security was hired to police the crowd at the big game.

7. policeverb

   To patrol an area.

8. Etymology: From police, from politia, from πολιτεία.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. POLICEnoun

   The regulation and government of a city or country, so far as regards the inhabitants.

   Etymology: French.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. POLICE

   Police are organizations established to maintain law and order.

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1. police

   Police can be defined as a government agency or body responsible for maintaining law and order within a specific jurisdiction. They are empowered to enforce laws, investigate crimes, prevent and respond to emergencies, protect and serve communities, and ensure the safety and security of individuals and their property. Police officers, who are members of the police force, have the authority to apprehend and detain suspects, collect evidence, and testify in court. They play a crucial role in upholding societal rules and regulations, promoting public safety, and preserving peace within a society.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Policenoun

   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. Policenoun

   that which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state

3. Policenoun

   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. Policenoun

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

5. Policenoun

   the cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state / a camp as to cleanliness

6. Policeverb

   to keep in order by police

7. Policeverb

   to make clean; as, to police a camp

8. Etymology: [F., fr. L. politia the condition of a state, government, administration, Gr. , fr. to be a citizen, to govern or administer a state, fr. citizen, fr. city; akin to Skr. pur, puri. Cf. Policy polity, Polity.]

WikidataRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. Police

   The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by the state to enforce the law, protect property, and limit civil disorder. Their powers include the legitimized use of force. The term is most commonly associated with police services of a state that are authorized to exercise the police power of that state within a defined legal or territorial area of responsibility. Police forces are often defined as being separate from military or other organizations involved in the defense of the state against foreign aggressors; however, gendarmerie are military units charged with civil policing. Law enforcement, however, constitutes only part of policing activity. Policing has included an array of activities in different situations, but the predominant ones are concerned with the preservation of order. In some societies, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, these developed within the context of maintaining the class system and the protection of private property. Some parts of the world may suffer from police corruption. Alternative names for police force include constabulary, gendarmerie, police department, police service, crime prevention, protective services, law enforcement agency, civil guard or civic guard. Members may be referred to as police officers, troopers, sheriffs, constables, rangers, peace officers or civic/civil guards. Police of the Soviet-era Eastern Europe were called the militsiya. The Irish police are called the Garda Síochána; a police officer is called a garda. And although the word "police" comes from Greek, the Greek police is Αστυνομία.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Police

   pō-lēs′, n. the system of regulations of a city, town, or district for the preservation of order and enforcement of law: the internal government of a state: (short for Police′-force) the civil officers employed to preserve order, &c.—v.t. to guard or maintain order in: to put in order.—n.pl. Police′-commiss′ioners, a body of men appointed to regulate the appointments and duties of the police.—ns. Police′-inspect′or, a superior officer of police who has charge of a department, next in rank to a superintendent; Police′-mag′istrate, one who presides in a police court; Police′man, a member of a police-force; Police′-off′ice, -stā′tion, the headquarters of the police of a district, used also as a temporary place of confinement; Police′-off′icer, -con′stable, a policeman; Police′-rate, a tax levied for the support of the police.—Police court, a court for trying small offences brought before it by the police. [Fr.,—L. politia—Gr. politeia, the condition of a state—politēs, a citizen—polis, a city.]

The Roycroft DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. police

   Similia similibus.

U.S. National Library of MedicineRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Police

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

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. police

   The cleaning of a camp or garrison; the state of a camp in regard to cleanliness.

Etymology and OriginsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Police

   The appropriate designation of civil guardians of the peace, from the Greek polis, city.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. POLICE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Police is ranked #53538 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Police surname appeared 386 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Police.
   
   64.5% or 249 total occurrences were White.
   21.7% or 84 total occurrences were Black.
   4.6% or 18 total occurrences were Asian.
   3.1% or 12 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   3.1% or 12 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2.8% or 11 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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1. • Guard

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'police' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #304

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'police' in Written Corpus Frequency: #483

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'police' in Nouns Frequency: #95

How to pronounce police?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say police in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of police in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of police in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of police in a Sentence

1. Mandeville Police Chief Gerald Sticker:

   It's a bad day for the Mandeville Police Department, we have a wife that's grieving, we have children that are grieving, we have an agency that hasn't lost a police officer in probably over 50 years that is grieving.

2. Elaine Yu:

   Many media groups here are also saying it'll get harder for reporters to get people to talk to them because the police can now potentially seize reporters files and devices through a court warrant.

3. Mayor Doug Daoust:

   The police were not ready to release the evidence, and from the input I got from citizens in Troutdale, many people were not comfortable with the gun returning to the community, you could make an issue out of the fact that we’re spending public money to buy the gun, but the entire seven-person City Council thought it was a low cost to pay to reduce the amount of raw emotion and trauma we’re still facing in this community.

4. Joe Gruenbaum:

   We want to make sure that people understand completely their protections, constitutionally and legally, when they're interacting with the police.

5. Detroit Police Chief James Craig:

   I appreciate our friends in the media for really dispelling a horrible rumor that was circulating across the city that there was a serial killer and that he had dumped five bodies in dumpsters across the city, that was absolutely false, you knew it was false and we only ask that if you didn't hear it from the Detroit Police Department, it's probably not so.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=police
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Police
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=police
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/police
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=police
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=police
9. ^ The Roycroft Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/36566/36566-h/36566-h.htm#:~:text=police
10. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
    https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html
11. ^ Etymology and Origins
    https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/54657/pg54657-images.html#:~:text=police
12. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html