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police
has definitions from the fields of law,government
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[ noun ] (law,government) the force of policemen and officers
Synonyms Examples "the law came looking for him" Used in print (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 . |
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[ verb ] maintain the security of by carrying out a control
Synonyms 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 . |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 21983
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