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Definitions for gendarmerie
ʒɑnˈdɑr mə ri; Fr. ʒɑ̃ dar məˈrigen·darmerie

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. gendarmerie, gendarmerynoun

    French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively

Wiktionary

  1. gendarmerienoun

    A military body charged with police duties among the civilian population.

  2. Etymology: From the.

Wikipedia

  1. Gendarmerie

    A gendarmerie () is a military force with law enforcement duties among the civilian population. The term gendarme (English: ) is derived from the medieval French expression gens d'armes, which translates to "men-at-arms" (literally, "armed people"). In France and some Francophone nations, the gendarmerie is a branch of the armed forces that is responsible for internal security in parts of the territory (primarily in rural areas and small towns in the case of France), with additional duties as military police for the armed forces. It was introduced to several other Western European countries during the Napoleonic conquests. In the mid-twentieth century, a number of former French mandates and colonial possessions (such as Lebanon, Syria, the Ivory Coast and the Republic of the Congo) adopted a gendarmerie after independence. A similar concept exists in Eastern Europe in the form of Internal Troops, which are present in many countries of the former Soviet Union and its former allied countries. Some of the more prominent modern gendarmerie organizations include the French National Gendarmerie, French National Guard, Spanish Civil Guard, the Romanian Jandarmeria, Algerian National Gendarmerie, Argentine National Gendarmerie, United States Constabulary, Burkinese National Gendarmerie, Italian Carabinieri, Chilean Carabineros, Moldovan Carabinieri, Royal Netherlands Marechaussee, the Royal Moroccan Gendarmerie, the Portuguese National Republican Guard, Serbian Žandarmerija, Mexican National Guard, Tunisian National Guard, Turkish Gendarmerie and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police/Gendarmerie royale du Canada.

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  1. gendarmerie

    A gendarmerie is a military force with law enforcement duties among civilian populations, usually in rural or nonurban areas. It acts as a branch of the armed forces and generally performs policing duties such as maintaining order, enforcing the law, and preventing and investigating crime. This term is used mainly in French-speaking countries or regions.

Wikidata

  1. Gendarmerie

    A gendarmerie or gendarmery is in principle a military force charged with police duties among civilian populations. Members of such a force are typically called "gendarmes". These units are also associated with other descriptions, such as maréchaussée or Guard or Constabulary. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary describes gendarme as "a soldier who is employed on police duties" and a "gendarmery, -erie" as "gendarmes as a body". Sometimes forces that are no longer military still use the title for historic reasons, in the same manner as many other units use obsolete military titles but these are not strictly gendarmeries.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of gendarmerie in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of gendarmerie in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of gendarmerie in a Sentence

  1. Prime Minister Boiko Borisov:

    The situation at the border is much more dramatic, we prepare for a severe problem with the refugees ... The army, police and gendarmerie, they are all working.

  2. Tresor Nzila:

    It's bizarre because there was a disarmament, demobilisation and reinsertion, the army is present in the Pool. The gendarmerie and police are there as well.

  3. Prime Minister Manuel Valls:

    The numbers, time and procedure for convening these operational reservists is being decided by the Directorate General of the National Gendarmerie.

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