POLICE
\pəlˈiːs], \pəlˈiːs], \p_ə_l_ˈiː_s]\
Definitions of POLICE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
Sort: Oldest first
-
That which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state.
-
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.
-
Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison.
-
To keep in order by police.
-
To make clean; as, to police a camp.
-
The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state a camp as to cleanliness.
By Oddity Software
-
That which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state.
-
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.
-
Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison.
-
To keep in order by police.
-
To make clean; as, to police a camp.
-
The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state a camp as to cleanliness.
By Noah Webster.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
-
In a city, town, or district, that part of the government that enforces the laws and keeps order; an organized body of officers for keeing order.
-
To protect and keep in order by regular officers.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
-
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 for preserving order, etc.
-
POLICEMAN.
By Daniel Lyons
-
POLICEMAN.
-
To place under the control of police.
-
A body of civil officers organized under authority to maintain order and enforce law.
By James Champlin Fernald
-
System of rules for preserving order in a city; civil officers for preserving order.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
-
n. [French, Greek] The administration of the laws and regulations of a city or incorporated town or borough;—the internal regulation and government of a kingdom or state;—the body of civil officers organized for the preservation of good order ad the enforcement of the laws.
