Police

Noun

 * 1) NaN undefineds An organisation granted the legal authority to enforce the law. See usage note.
 * 2) * Call the police!
 * 3) * The police operating in New York City operate under the New York City Police Department, several other City agencies and boards, and several public authorities. 
 * 4)  Members of the police force.
 * 5) * Three police arrived in two cars.
 * 6) 🇺🇸 (plural=police) A police officer

Synonyms

 * the cobblers, the fuzz, pigs, 5-0, popo, the heat, filth, cops/coppers, bobbies, peelers, woodentops (UK - referring to uniformed officers), 6-up, the law (Texas)

Derived terms

 * chief of police
 * police box
 * police captain
 * police car
 * police chief
 * police commissioner
 * police constable
 * police department


 * police detective
 * police dog
 * police force
 * police headquarters
 * police jury
 * police lieutenant
 * policeman
 * police officer
 * police precinct


 * police record
 * police sergeant
 * police service
 * police squad
 * police state
 * police station
 * police van
 * police wagon
 * policewoman

Related terms

 * policy
 * political
 * politician
 * politicize
 * politic
 * politics
 * polity

Verb

 * 1)  To enforce the law and keep order among (a group).
 * Extra security was hired to police the crowd at the big game.
 * 1)  To patrol an area.
 * 2) * 2006, Robert B. Parker, Hundred-Dollar Baby, Putnam, ISBN 0399153764, page 275,
 * "Fire off several rounds in a residential building and stop to police the brass?"

Adjectives for Police
adequate; lynx-eyed; executive; ubiquitous; ornamental; interested; ineffective; rustic; ingenious; indignant.

Verbs for Police
commend—; detail—to; evade—; tangle with—; —accost; —apprehend; —clash; — corner; —escort; —espy; —intimidate; — patrol; —protect; —raid; —regulate; — scout; —trace; —track down; —trail; — trap; —warn.

Thesaurus
Cheka, FBI, Gestapo, Interpol, MP, MVD, Mounties, NKVD, OGPU, RCMP, SP, Scotland Yard, administer, arm, armor, bless, bull, champion, clean up, clear the decks, clear up, cloak, compass about, constabulary, control, cop, copper, copyright, county police, cover, cushion, defend, enforce, ensure, fence, fend, fix up, fuzz, groom, guarantee, guard, harbor, haven, heat, highway patrol, insure, keep, keep from harm, keep guard, keep vigil, keep watch, law enforcement agency, make safe, man, military police, monitor, mount guard, neaten, nestle, observe, officer, oversee, patent, patrol, peace officer, police force, police officer, police up, political police, posse, protect, provincial police, put in trim, register, regulate, ride shotgun for, riot police, safeguard, screen, secret police, secure, security force, shelter, shield, shore patrol, shroud, special police, spruce, spruce up, stand guard, stand sentinel, state police, straighten up, supervise, tactical police, the cops, the fuzz, tidy, tidy up, trig up, trim, trim up, troopers, underwrite, vigilance committee, vigilantes, watch

Etymology
From police:, from  politia:, from  πόλις:.

Noun

 * Afrikaans: polisie
 * Albanian: policia
 * Arabic: شرطة, بوليس
 * Armenian: ոստիկանություն
 * Azeri: polis
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: паліцыя, міліцыя
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: policia
 * Chechen: милцо
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , (PRC equivalent institution)
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: kpovitɔ
 * Faroese: løgreglan
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: vixía
 * Georgian: პოლიცია
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: पोलिस, पुलिस
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: polisi
 * Irish: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:


 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: polîs
 * Sorani:
 * Latin: vigil, vigiles
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: ,
 * Malay: polis
 * Malayalam: പോലീസ്
 * Maltese:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: پلیس
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: chapaq
 * Romanian:, miliție
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: полиција, милиција
 * Roman: policija, milicija
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: policija
 * Spanish:
 * Suku: ypk}}:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pulisya
 * Telugu: రక్షక దళము
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: поліцiя, міліція
 * Urdu: پولس, پولیس
 * Vietnamese: (警察)
 * Volapük: pold
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: polysje
 * Yiddish: פּאליציי


 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Navajo:
 * Romanian: polițist, polițistă


 * Russian: милиционер, полицейский
 * Sotho: lepolesa
 * Telugu: రక్షక భటుడు
 * Volapük: poldan,  hipoldan,  jipoldan

Noun

 * 1) shelf structure

Derived terms

 * polička

Noun

 * 1)  police
 * Fuyez, la police arrive !
 * Run, the police are coming!
 * 1)   fount, font

Related terms

 * policier

Etymology
From politia:, from  πόλις:.

Anagrams

 * picole, picolé