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English

Etymology

From , from {{term|politia||state, government|lang=lat}}, from {{term|πόλις||city|tr=polis|sc=polytonic|lang=grc}}.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /pəˈliːs/
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-police.ogg


Noun

  1. An organisation granted the legal authority to enforce the law.
  2. * Call the police!
  3. * The police operating in New York City operate under the New York City Police Department, several other City agencies and boards, and several public authorities.
  4. Members of the police force.
  5. * Three police arrived in two cars.
  6. * The policewoman arrived in her car.
  7. (plural=police) A police officer
  8. * {{quote-book|2006|David Simon|Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets|page=440|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=gf3Z9K2rb6AC|isbn=0805080759

|passage=This time it is the worst kind of call a murder police can get.}}

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Translations

Verb

  1. To enforce the law and keep order among (a group).
  2. : Extra security was hired to police the crowd at the big game.
  3. To patrol or clean an area.
  4. * 2006, w:Robert B. Parker|Robert B. Parker, Hundred-Dollar Baby, Putnam, ISBN 0399153764, page 275,
  5. *: "Fire off several rounds in a residential building and stop to police the brass?"


See also


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Czech

Noun

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French

Etymology

From {{term|politia||state, government|lang=lat}}, from {{term|πόλις||city|tr=polis|sc=polytonic|lang=grc}}.

Pronunciation


Noun

police f

  1. #English|police
  2. fount, font


Usage notes

  • Police is a singular noun in French, taking the singular form of a verb, as in "Fuyez, la police arrive!" ("Run, the police are coming!")


Related terms


Category:Law enforcement

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Police \Po*lice"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Policed; p. pr. & vb.
n. Policing.]
1. To keep in order by police.
[1913 Webster]

2. (Mil.) To make clean; as, to police a camp.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Police \Po*lice"\, n. [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.]
1. 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.
[1913 Webster]

2. That which concerns the order of the community; the
internal regulation of a state.
[1913 Webster]

3. 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.
[1913 Webster]

4. (Mil.) Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to
preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements
in a camp or garrison.
[1913 Webster]

5. The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state ? a camp
as to cleanliness.
[1913 Webster]

Police commissioner, a civil officer, usually one of a
board, commissioned to regulate and control the
appointment, duties, and discipline of the police.

Police constable, or Police officer, a policeman.

Police court, a minor court to try persons brought before
it by the police.

Police inspector, an officer of police ranking next below a
superintendent.

Police jury, a body of officers who collectively exercise
jurisdiction in certain cases of police, as levying taxes,
etc.; -- so called in Louisiana. --Bouvier.

Police justice, or Police magistrate, a judge of a police
court.

Police offenses (Law), minor offenses against the order of
the community, of which a police court may have final
jurisdiction.

Police station, the headquarters of the police, or of a
section of them; the place where the police assemble for
orders, and to which they take arrested persons.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet police
n : the force of policemen and officers; "the law came looking
for him" [syn: police force, constabulary, law]
v : maintain the security of by carrying out a control [syn: patrol]
Moby Dictionary
Cheka , FBI , Gestapo , Interpol , MP , MVD , Mounties , NKVD , OGPU , RCMP ,
SP , Scotland Yard , administer , arm , armor , bless , bull , champion ,
clean up , clear the decks , clear up , cloak , compass about ,
constabulary , control , cop , copper , copyright , county police ,
cover , cushion , defend , enforce , ensure , fence , fend , fix up , fuzz ,
groom , guarantee , guard , harbor , haven , heat , highway patrol ,
insure , keep , keep from harm , keep guard , keep vigil , keep watch ,
law enforcement agency , make safe , man , military police , monitor ,
mount guard , neaten , nestle , observe , officer , oversee , patent ,
patrol , peace officer , police force , police officer , police up ,
political police , posse , protect , provincial police , put in trim ,
register , regulate , ride shotgun for , riot police , safeguard ,
screen , secret police , secure , security force , shelter , shield ,
shore patrol , shroud , special police , spruce , spruce up ,
stand guard , stand sentinel , state police , straighten up ,
supervise , tactical police , the cops , the fuzz , tidy , tidy up ,
trig up , trim , trim up , troopers , underwrite , vigilance committee ,
vigilantes , watch


POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.
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