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(MLE, slang) The police.
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The fictional MI6 agent James Bond.
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(slang, US, derogatory) Collectively, police or law enforcement.
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(US, slang, street slang) The police.
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(historical) A member of a special police force from Northern Ireland.
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(law enforcement) A broadcast issued from one law enforcement agency to another, typically containing information about a wanted suspect or a person of interest.
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A response made by an armed police officer, team etc. to a particular emergency situation.
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To act as a batman, wait on an officer.
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(US, slang, by extension) The police, a police officer or the clothing they wear.
n
(US law enforcement, acronym) A broadcast issued from a law enforcement agency to others, typically containing information about a wanted suspect, a person of interest, or a related vehicle.
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(Toronto & UK, MultiCultural Toronto English, Multicultural London English) the police.
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(plural "bravi") A hired soldier; an assassin; a desperado.
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The practice of assigning police resources to deal with otherwise unattended urban decay, suggested by broken windows theory.
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(chiefly law enforcement slang) Forming compounds denoting an agent or agency tasked with reducing or eliminating the first element.
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(historical) A member of an armed force, in Spain between 1829 and 1940, whose mission was to patrol the coasts and borders of the country.
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(figuratively) Source of rescue, especially in an emergency.
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(Jersey) Synonym of police officer.
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(Polari) A police station.
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(UK) A person employed to enforce parking, traffic and other restrictions and laws in England and Wales, formerly known as a parking attendant.
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(crime, law enforcement) The proportion of crimes that are solved by the police with respect to the total number of crimes reported.
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(historical) A band of brigands in Italy or Sicily.
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Synonym of community policeman
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A policeman who maintains a regular presence in a particular community, forging relationships with people who live in the community and using those to prevent crime and de-escalate conflict.
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(chiefly Caribbean) A police officer.
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(UK, law) A police officer or an officer with equivalent powers.
adj
Characteristic of police; police-like, rather than military.
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(UK, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, slang) A police station.
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(slang, with the) The police, considered as a group entity.
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A police force that patrols the Internet or cyberspace.
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(colloquial) Police detective.
adj
(UK) Pertaining to a traditional form of local policing, focused on officers walking the beat.
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(US, derogatory, slang) The police.
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(US, dated, early 20th-century slang) A detective.
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(historical) A type of French police officer.
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(London, Toronto, especially MLE, MTE, slang) A police officer.
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(US) A law-enforcement official of the FBI
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(informal, chiefly California, also MLE slang) A federal law enforcement officer, usually belonging to the United States government.
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(US, informal, probably controversial) Police officers.
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(US, slang, street slang) The police.
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(US, slang, rare, southern Louisiana) The police.
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(usually with "the", in the singular or plural) Synonym of police force
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(informal) A metaphorical police force imagined to prevent others from having fun.
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(US, slang, with "the") The police, or any law enforcement agency.
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(in the plural) The police.
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A military body charged with police duties among the civilian population.
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A man at the edge or rear of a military patrol, expected to make an escape and carry information if the group is ambushed.
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(slang, derogatory) A member of the grammar police.
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(Ireland) The Gardaí; the police force.
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(uncountable, slang) The police.
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(law enforcement) any police unit which is primarily responsible for overseeing and enforcing of regulations on roads and highways
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(UK, law enforcement) A person of unknown ethnicity
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(US, dated, slang) A police station.
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(New York, MTE, MLE, slang) police, a federal government officer.
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(UK, slang, law enforcement) The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.
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A personification of law enforcement; a police officer.
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(US, slang) A police officer.
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The task of ensuring obedience to the law.
adj
Alternative form of law enforcement.
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(idiomatic, almost always preceded by the) The influence or effectiveness of law enforcement institutions; law enforcement officers collectively.
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(UK) local policing team
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(London, law enforcement, usually with "the") The Metropolitan Police Service of London (MPS)
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(historical) A section of British military intelligence in World War II; they were charged with aiding resistance fighters in enemy territory and recovering Allied troops from behind enemy lines.
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A unit of a military organization whose duty is to police the organization. They are in charge of law enforcement on military property, and of military personnel.
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A male member of the military police.
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Vigilantes or groups that try to enforce their moral laws on others.
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A unit of the civil police who are specifically trained to serve duty on horseback. Their duties can be ceremonial, or often for crowd control, and to police areas of difficult access or wilderness areas.
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(Canada, informal, historical, law enforcement) A member of the North West Mounted Police
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(UK, Australia, slang) A law enforcement officer.
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(idiomatic, colloquial) A police officer.
adj
(chiefly of a shooting, euphemistic) Committed by a police officer.
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(British slang, frequently with the) The police force.
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Pronunciation spelling of police. [(Canada, US and historical) A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement.]
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Law enforcement agents considered ancillary or subsidiary to the regular police force.
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(law enforcement) The largest division of officers within a police department or sheriff's office, whose assignment is to patrol and respond to calls for service.
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A police officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty instead of detection or supervision.
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A patrolman or patrolwoman.
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(Canada, law enforcement) An officer of the peace (police officer) in a force run by a Canadian aboriginal community.
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(law enforcement) A patrol conducted by law enforcement to monitor or secure an area.
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(rare, derogatory, slang) The police.
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(UK, slang, derogatory) A police community support officer, a PCSO.
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(UK, mildly derogatory, uncountable, usually with "the") the police, police officers
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(colloquial, somewhat derogatory, countable) Synonym of police officer.
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(UK, law enforcement) Alternative letter-case form of polac [(UK, law enforcement) A road-traffic accident that occurs due to presence of a police vehicle.]
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(Canada, US and historical) A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement.
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(Australia, Queensland) A small police station, with a limited range of facilities, located in an officer's residence or in a shopping centre.
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(law enforcement) Police force, especially a local or regional branch of a national police force.
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(law enforcement) Any police organization; a constabulary.
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A line of police officers standing guard.
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(nonstandard) Alternative spelling of policeman [A male police officer, sometimes used for any police officer regardless of gender.]
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A peace officer who is a member of a police force.
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(US, firearms, historical) Synonym of police special (“pistol manufactured for police use”)
n
law enforcement agency tasked to safeguard a community or a person from crime.
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(law enforcement) Police force.
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A building serving as the headquarters of a branch of the police force, and sometimes as a temporary place of confinement for offenders.
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The police collectively; the system or practice of policing.
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A male police officer, sometimes used for any police officer regardless of gender.
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A police officer of any gender.
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(computing) A software component that enforces a security policy.
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(law enforcement) The work done by police.
adj
(uncommon) policial (of or relating to the police)
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(film, often italicized) A police movie, particularly one based on a police novel
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(uncountable, Scotland, Ireland, Tyneside) The police.
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(uncountable, Tyneside) The police.
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(UK) Acronym of police search advisor. [(UK) A police officer responsible for the planning, organisation, management and control of crime, missing person and counter-terrorism searches]
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(colloquial) Alternative spelling of po-po [(colloquial, somewhat derogatory, countable) Synonym of police officer.]
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(MLE, slang, collective) law enforcement, those who side with criminal prosecution
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(now historical, in later use chiefly US) A group of people summoned to help law enforcement.
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Work done by the coastguard to prevent smuggling.
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(law enforcement, Quebec) SQ — Quebec police force — Sûreté du Québec
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Synonym of police tactical unit (PTU) / tactical squad / SWAT
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(public policy, law enforcement) The practice (usually considered discreditable), by some police and other officials, of treating members of certain racial groups as more likely to be involved in criminal or other antisocial behavior than members of other racial groups.
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A patrol of an area that was already previously patrolled.
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A unit of the police specifically trained to deal with rioting crowds. They use special equipment for personal defense as well as for crowd control and dispersal.
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A member of a riot police.
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(UK, dated, informal) Police officers tasked with investigating corruption within the police force.
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Alternative form of SWAT [(chiefly US, law enforcement) A SWAT team]
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A police or military patrol consisting of a large number of officers concentrated in a small geographic area.
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(by extension) The police in London.
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(politics, euphemistic) An army.
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A special unit of the military police of the U.S. navy or the Royal Navy. Their duties are to police the seamen while they are on shore leave.
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A government soldier who joined the rebels during the Sierra Leone civil war.
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A low-ranking gangster or member of a gang, especially the mafia, who engages in physical conflict.
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(law enforcement) state police
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(Britain, colloquial) A special constable.
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A volunteer police officer
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(law enforcement) Sûreté du Québec - the Quebec provincial police force
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Outside the USA or Australia, the national police, i.e. the police force belonging to the national (state) government.
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Alternative form of statie [(New England, slang, law enforcement) A state trooper.]
n
(New England, slang, law enforcement) A state trooper.
adj
(law, law enforcement) Of or pertaining to laws or policing practices, found in some jurisdictions, which permit a law enforcement officer to temporarily detain and search a member of the public based on the officer's suspicions.
n
(chiefly US, law enforcement) A SWAT team
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(law enforcement, Quebec) The Sûreté du Québec.
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(Philippines) A low-level law enforcement officer
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(historical, Scotland) The chief of a company of drovers.
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(colloquial) The police.
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A group that aims to control what other people think.
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(FMA) A martial arts instructor.
adj
In an occupation that requires a uniform, such as the police force or military.
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(law enforcement, criminology) A police section specialized in vice crimes.
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(historical) The national police force of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
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Village public safety officer.
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(obsolete after misuse by Walter Scott) A war cry played to order the soldiers to attack (normally played on a bugle).
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The police department charged with patrolling harbours and waterways by boat.
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(rare, historical) In tsarist and Stalinist-era Russia, a restricted internal passport issued to those suspected or convicted of political or other crimes which limited where they could travel and reside.
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(figuratively, metonymically) The Metropolitan Police Service
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