Police

Quick meaning: Police is a noun meaning (military, slang) Cleanup of a military facility, as a formal duty.

Meaning

(military, slang) Cleanup of a military facility, as a formal duty.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To enforce the law and keep order among (a group).
2. (law enforcement) A constituted body of officers representing the civil authority of government, empowered to maintain public order and safety, enforce the law, and prevent, detect, and investigate crime.
3. (usually plural only) The staff of such a department or agency, particularly its officers; (regional, chiefly US, Caribbean, Jamaica, Scotland, countable) an individual police officer.
4. (figuratively, usually ironic and mildly derogatory) People who try to enforce norms or standards as if granted authority similar to the police.
5. (archaic, now rare) Synonym of administration, the regulation of a community or society.
6. (obsolete) Alternative form of policy.
7. (obsolete) Alternative form of polity, civilization, a regulated community.

Example Sentences

Call the police!

Police! help! Police! help!

There’s only one police in this town.

Citadel Security is a volunteer police service answering to the Citadel Council. The 200,000 constables of C-Sec are responsible for maintaining public order in the densely populated Citadel.

Word Forms

• polices
• policing
• policed

Synonyms for police

Depending on context, synonyms include Babylon, bacon, Bill, boydem, constabulary, dibble.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include constabulary, patrol, law, garda, carabinieri, gendarme.

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