Police (IPA: /pəˈɫis/)
| Police (n.) |
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. |
| Police (n.) |
That which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state. |
| Police (n.) |
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. |
| Police (n.) |
Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison. |
| Police (n.) |
The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state / a camp as to cleanliness. |
| Police (v. t.) |
To keep in order by police. |
| Police (v. t.) |
To make clean; as, to police a camp. |
| Police |
Constituted body of persons empowered by the state to enforce the law |
| Police |
City of Poland |
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Village in the Třebíč district of Czech Republic |
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1985 film by Maurice Pialat |
| Police |
1916 film directed by Charlie Chaplin |
| Police Synonyms |
Law, Constabulary, Police Force |
| Police Synonyms |
Patrol |
| Police (Last Name / Surname) |
Police is the #53,538 most common last name / surname from the 2010 United States Census. The census reported that 386 people had that surname. |
| Spanish Translation |
Police in Spanish is Policía |
| Tagalog Translation |
Police in Tagalog is Alagaan |
| Example Sentence (Quote) ".. .even the police discussed this violence as possibly coming within the scope of their terms of reference." - Anthony Burgess |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " [Having narrowly escaped arrest from a disinterested police officer] Well, Miami sucks. But the cops are kind of nice." - Big Trouble |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " [twenty 18-wheelers are on a crash course with about 50 police cars] Welcome to the biggest game of chicken, boys!" - Smokey and the Bandit II |
| Example Sentence (Quote) "A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty." - Mark Twain |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " America is a fucking police state." - Police state |
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