Dictionary Entry
police
police is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough.
- 2noun
That which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state.
- 3noun
The organized body of civil officers in a city, town, or district, whose particular duties are the preservation of good order, the prevention and detection of crime, and the enforcement of the laws.
- 4noun
Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison.
- 5noun
The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state / a camp as to cleanliness.
- 6transitive verb
To keep in order by police.
- 7transitive verb
To make clean; as, to police a camp.
- 8noun
the force of policemen and officers
"the law came looking for him"
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- 9verb
maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol
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