police
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Noun (1)
- the force of policemen and officers“the law came looking for him”Synonyms: police forceconstabularylawType of force, law enforcement agencyKinds posse, Scotland Yard, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, secret police, Europol, Schutzstaffel, Mutawa'een, gendarmerieMembers police officer, officer
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Translations
Noun local or general law enforcement agency
- Spanish
- policía
- French
- police
- German
- Polizei
- Italian
- polizia
- Portuguese
- polícia
- Turkish
- polis
- Russian
- поли́ция polícija
- Arabic
- شُرْطَة šurṭa
- Chinese
- 警方 jǐngfāng
- Japanese
- 警察 keisatsu
33 more languages
- Dutch
- politie
- Polish
- policja
- Swedish
- polis
- Greek
- αστυνομία astynomía
- Korean
- 경찰 gyeongchal
- Indonesian
- polisi
- Vietnamese
- cảnh sát
- Hungarian
- rendőrség
- Portuguese (PT)
- polícia
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 警方 jǐngfāng
- Albanian
- polici
- Breton
- polis
- Catalan
- policia
- Czech
- policie
- Danish
- politi
- Esperanto
- polico
- Estonian
- politsei
- Finnish
- poliisi
- Georgian
- პოლიცია ṗolicia
- Hebrew
- משטרה mishtará
- Icelandic
- lögregla
- Kurdish
- polîs
- Latvian
- policija
- Lithuanian
- policija
- Norwegian
- politi
- Romanian
- poliție
- Scottish Gaelic
- poileas
- Serbo-Croatian
- policija
- Slovak
- polícia
- Slovenian
- policija
- Swahili
- polisi
- Welsh
- heddlu
- Yiddish
- פּאָליציי politsey
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F., fr. L. politia the condition of a state, government, administration, Gr. …, fr. … to be a citizen, to govern or administer a state, fr. … citizen, fr. … city; akin to Skr. pur, puri. Cf. Policy polity, Polity.
1. 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.
2. That which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state.
3. 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.
4. Military Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison.
5. The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state … a camp as to cleanliness.
Police commissioner, a civil officer, usually one of a board, commissioned to regulate and control the appointment, duties, and discipline of the police. — Police constable, or Police officer, a policeman. — Police court, a minor court to try persons brought before it by the police. — Police inspector, an officer of police ranking next below a superintendent. — Police jury, a body of officers who collectively exercise jurisdiction in certain cases of police, as levying taxes, etc.; — so called in Louisiana. Bouvier, John — Police justice, or Police magistrate, a judge of a police court. — Police offenses Law, minor offenses against the order of the community, of which a police court may have final jurisdiction. — Police station, the headquarters of the police, or of a section of them; the place where the police assemble for orders, and to which they take arrested persons.
1. To keep in order by police.
2. Military To make clean; as, to police a camp.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54