Police

[pə'liːs] or [pə'lis]

Definition

(noun.) the force of policemen and officers; 'the law came looking for him'.

Edited by Lizzie--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

(n.) That which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state.

(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.

(n.) Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison.

(n.) The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state / a camp as to cleanliness.

(v. t.) To keep in order by police.

(v. t.) To make clean; as, to police a camp.

Typist: Perry

Definition

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.

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