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police
  1. A civil force granted the legal authority for law enforcement and maintaining public order. [from 18th c.]
  2. (regional, chiefly US, Caribbean, Scotland) A police officer. [from 19th c.]
  3. (obsolete) Policy. [15th-19th c.]
  4. (obsolete) Communal living; civilization. [16th-19th c.]
  5. (now rare, historical) The regulation of a given community or society; administration, law and order etc. [from 17th c.]
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  7. Examples:
    1. “The police have arrested several people who were alleged to have been involved in the incident.”
policing
policeman
  1. A member of a police force, especially one who is male.
  2. (chemistry) A glass rod capped at one end with rubber, used in a chemistry laboratory for gravimetric analysis.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “I ended up getting a job as a policeman and eventually finished as a state trooper.”
      “This prisoner, a former policeman, was allegedly helping prison warders draw up false statements for submission to the commission, Barlow said.”
      “He only turns to crime for revenge when he is accused of the attempted murder of a policeman.”
policer
  1. One who, or that which, polices.
  2. (computing) A software component that enforces a security policy.
polis
  1. (uncountable, Scotland, Ireland, Geordie) The police.
  2. (countable, Scotland, Ireland, Geordie) A police officer.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The ideal of the polis was that every individual was to take a direct role in political, economic, spiritual and social affairs.”
      “Not sure if I can make it, but it was well-attended last year, we got mugshot by the polis, which must be the mark of a good demo.”
      “Each city state or polis had its own political organization and thus was truly independent.”
policier
  1. (film, often italicized) A police movie, particularly one based on a police novel
polis
  1. (historical) A Greek city-state.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The ideal of the polis was that every individual was to take a direct role in political, economic, spiritual and social affairs.”
      “Not sure if I can make it, but it was well-attended last year, we got mugshot by the polis, which must be the mark of a good demo.”
      “Each city state or polis had its own political organization and thus was truly independent.”
policeboat
  1. A boat used by police.
policework
  1. The work done by police.
policemen
  1. plural form of policeman
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The City petrol vehicle stands parked in one corner, the policemen over stacked with warm clothes play cards in the back seat of the vehicle.”
      “One of the two policemen jotted notes in a leather bound pad while the other talked to Rick.”
      “For such policemen, I have no feelings, they ought to be dealt with strictly by the book.”
policeboats
  1. plural of policeboat
policiers
  1. plural of policier
policings
policers
  1. plural of policer
poleis
  1. plural of polis
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  3. Examples:
    1. “King Darius managed to build up the Persian Empire and now controlled Asia Minor, including Greek poleis on the west coast.”
      “In many poleis, the common hearth of the polis, the koine hestia, which was also an altar-hearth for Hestia, was located in the prytaneion.”
      “What we call the ancient Greek world was really hundreds of independent city-states or poleis.”
polises
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