Usually means: Limiting military enforcement of laws.
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  1. posse comitatus: Merriam-Webster
  2. posse comitatus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. posse comitatus: Collins English Dictionary
  4. posse comitatus: Vocabulary.com
  5. posse comitatus: Wordnik
  6. posse comitatus: Wiktionary
  7. posse comitatus: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Posse comitatus, posse comitatus: Dictionary.com
  9. Posse Comitatus (Common Law), Posse Comitatus (The West Wing), Posse Comitatus (U.S. movement), Posse Comitatus (organization), Posse Comitatus, Posse comitatus (common law), Posse comitatus (disambiguation), Posse comitatus, The Posse Comitatus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Posse comitatus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. posse comitatus: Rhymezone
  12. Posse comitatus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. posse comitatus: FreeDictionary.org
  14. posse comitatus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. posse comitatus: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. Posse Comitatus: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. posse comitatus: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Posse comitatus (disambiguation), Posse comitatus: Legal dictionary

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  1. posse comitatus: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Posse Comitatus: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (posse comitatus)

noun:  (historical) The able-bodied men over 15 in a given county who can be summoned by the sheriff to help keep the peace, or arrest a felon; also a group of men so gathered.
noun:  (figuratively) Any band of men, especially armed or hostile.

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