Definition of policie
1. police [ n ] the force of policemen and officers
Examples:
"the law came looking for him"
(Orlin J. Scoville, Part-Time Farming...)
Where schools , fire and police protection , and similar municipal services are of equal quality in city and country , real_estate taxes are usually about the same .
(Harold Rosenberg, "The Trial and Eichmann"...)
If anti-Semitism was on_trial in Jerusalem , why was it not identified , and with enough emphasis to capture the notice of the world press , in its connection with the activities of Eichmann 's Department_of_Jewish_Affairs , as exemplified by the betrayal and murder of Jews by non police and non-party anti-Semites in Germany , as_well_as in Poland , Czechoslovakia , Hungary ?
(Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)
The police credited him with twenty-five murders but he was never brought to trial for one of them .
The influence of Mass was less pervasive than that of the congested , slum tenements among the bawdy_houses , honkytonks , and sawdust_saloons of his birthplace ; he ran wild with the child gangs of the neighbourhood , and went_through the normal pressure-cooker course of thieving , police dodging , and housebreaking .
O_'_Banion 's first conflict with the police came in 1909 , at seventeen , when he was committed to Bridewell_Prison for three months for burglary ; two years later he served another three months for assault .
Synonyms police law police_force constabulary Related Terms force law_enforcement_agency posse Scotland_Yard schutzstaffel european_law_enforcement_organisation vice_squad secret_police Royal_Canadian_Mounted_Police gendarmerie mutawa policeman platoon2. police [ v ] maintain the security of by carrying out a control
Used in print:(Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)
Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures , however , believing that any sum they come_up with is only a surface manifestation - turned_up by their inevitably limited policing - of the real loot of the medical racketeer .
Synonyms patrol police Related Terms guard patrol patroller3. Police [ n ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 21983
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