What does police mean?

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

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word police.

Princeton's WordNet

  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

Wiktionary

  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 Dictionary

  1. POLICEnoun

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

    Etymology: French.

Wikipedia

  1. POLICE

    Police are organizations established to maintain law and order.

ChatGPT

  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 Dictionary

  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.]

Wikidata

  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 Dictionary

  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 Dictionary

  1. police

    Similia similibus.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Police

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

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. police

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

Etymology and Origins

  1. Police

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

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  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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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

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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. Tencent Video:

    An internal investigation brought to light bribery and corruption among some online video employees...The police have been notified and we are waiting for the results.

  2. Felippe Angeli:

    Even though there is no direct order (to kill), you have a governor and officials that use this language, that we should commemorate the deaths of suspects, that a (police) operation was successful when there were nine or 10 deaths, this ends up having an impact.

  3. Supreme Court:

    Ongoing threat assessments show evolving risks that require continuous protection, additional funding would provide for contract positions, eventually transitioning to full-time employees, that will augment capabilities of the Supreme Court police force and allow it to accomplish its protective mission.

  4. Rob Wainwright:

    If you put at risk any part of the framework for international police cooperation and intelligence sharing, that Britain currently relies on then there clearly is potential for consequences, i think there are some pretty serious security consequences actually.

  5. Ahmed Resan:

    But everyone ran away — the workers and even the police. A few minutes later there was an explosion.

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