Posse

Noun

 * 1) 🇺🇸 A group of people summoned to help law enforcement
 * 2) 🇺🇸 A search party
 * 3) 🇺🇸 A criminal gang
 * 4)  A group of associates

Thesaurus
Cheka, FBI, Gestapo, Interpol, KP, MP, MVD, Mounties, NKVD, OGPU, RCMP, SP, Scotland Yard, age group, army, army group, band, battalion, battery, battle group, bevy, body, brigade, bunch, cabal, cadre, cast, clique, cohort, column, combat command, combat team, company, complement, constabulary, contingent, corps, coterie, county police, covey, crew, crowd, detachment, detail, division, domiciliary visit, dragnet, exploration, faction, field army, field train, file, fleet, flying column, forage, frisk, gang, garrison, group, grouping, groupment, highway patrol, house-search, hunt, hunting, in-group, junta, kitchen police, law enforcement agency, legion, maniple, military police, mob, movement, organization, out-group, outfit, pack, party, peer group, perquisition, phalanx, platoon, police, police force, political police, probe, provincial police, quest, rank, ransacking, regiment, riot police, rummage, salon, search, search party, search warrant, search-and-destroy operation, searching, secret police, section, security force, set, shore patrol, special police, squad, squadron, stable, stalk, stalking, state police, still hunt, string, tactical police, tactical unit, task force, team, train, tribe, troop, troopers, troupe, turning over, unit, vigilance committee, vigilantes, wing

Etymology
From posse comitatus:.

Translations

 * Finnish: järjestyspartio
 * German:


 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: etsintäpartio


 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German:
 * Spanish: cuadrilla armada

Related terms

 * vigilante

Anagrams

 * pesos, poses, speos, s'pose, spose

Verb

 * 1)   "to be able (to)"

Noun
posse


 * 1) power, ability
 * 2) (scholastic Latin) potentiality, capability of being
 * 3)  force, body of men