police

Meanings

Noun

• the force of policemen and officers
• A public agency charged with enforcing laws and maintaining public order, usually being granted special privileges to do so, particularly
• A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement.
• A public agency charged with enforcing laws and maintaining public order, usually being granted special privileges to do so, particularly
• A branch of the Home Office responsible for general law enforcement within a specific territory.
• A public agency charged with enforcing laws and maintaining public order, usually being granted special privileges to do so, particularly
• Any of the formally enacted law enforcement agencies at various levels of government.
• A public agency charged with enforcing laws and maintaining public order, usually being granted special privileges to do so, particularly
• The staff of such a department or agency, particularly its officers; (regional, chiefly US, Caribbean, Jamaica, Scotland, countable) an individual police officer.
• People who try to enforce norms or standards as if granted authority similar to the police.
• Cleanup of a military facility, as a formal duty.
• Synonym of administration, the regulation of a community or society.
• Alternative form of policy.
• Alternative form of polity, civilization, a regulated community.

Verb

• maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol
• To enforce the law and keep order among (a group).
• To clean up an area.
• To enforce norms or standards upon.

Synonyms

5-O, administration, any plural synonym of police officer, Babylon, bacon, Big Blue Machine, boydem, constabulary, dibble, donut patrol, ducks and geese, ecilop, esclop, feds, filth, five-o, fuzz, garda, gardai, gendarmerie, heat, law, monarch, Old Bill, patrol, piglice, plod, po-po, police, police department, police force, police officer, police service, polis, thin blue line

Related Words

authority, beat, long arm of the law, manor, patch, policy, polis, politic, political, politically, politician, politicisation, politicise, politicization, politicize, politics, polity, power