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a.
Policed.
pl.
of Policeman
v. t.
To make clean; as, to police a camp.
n.
A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.
n.
A ministerial officer, appointed for each judicial district of the United States, to execute the process of the courts of the United States, and perform various duties, similar to those of a sheriff. The name is also sometimes applied to certain police officers of a city.
n.
A Turkish policeman.
a.
Regulated by laws for the maintenance of peace and order, enforced by organized administration.
n.
An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury.
n.
The headquarters of the police force of any precinct.
n.
Anciently, a meeting of the inhabitants of a ward; also, a court formerly held in each ward of London for trying defaults in matters relating to the watch, police, and the like.
v. t.
To keep in order by police.
a.
Relating to the police.
imp. & p. p.
of Police
n.
A superintendent of a department who has control of its police establishment, together with extensive powers of municipal regulation.
n.
A member of a body of police; a constable.
n.
A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.
n.
One who holds an office; a person lawfully invested with an office, whether civil, military, or ecclesiastical; as, a church officer; a police officer; a staff officer.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Police
a.
A dress of a particular style or fashion worn by persons in the same service or order by means of which they have a distinctive appearance; as, the uniform of the artillery, of the police, of the Freemasons, etc.
n.
Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison.
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