police

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 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.
• 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

Verb Forms: policed, policing, polices

• To maintain order or cleanliness; to control or regulate.
• 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.

Examples

• Call the police!
• Extra security was hired to police the crowd at the big game.
• Scotland Yard is, technically speaking, only the metropolitan police for Greater London but because of their importance they have special jurisdiction for some crimes across the United Kingdom.
• She had to police her own word choices to avoid common Scrabble traps.
• The Cook County Sheriff's Department has jurisdiction across most of Chicago but focuses on the unincorporated area and tasks like prisoner transport, leaving the rest to the Chicago Police Department.
• Who called the fashion police?

Synonyms

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