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noun
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(used with a plural verb) members of such a force: Several police are patrolling the neighborhood.
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the department of the government concerned with this, especially with the maintenance of order.
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EXPANDany body of people officially maintained or employed to keep order, enforce regulations, etc.
verb (used with object)
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to regulate, control, or keep in order by or as if by means of police.
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Military. to clean and keep clean (a camp, post, etc.)
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Polices
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Origin:
1520–30; < Middle French: government, civil administration, police < Late Latin polītia citizenship, government, for Latin polītīa; see polity
1520–30; < Middle French: government, civil administration, police < Late Latin polītia citizenship, government, for Latin polītīa; see polity
Related forms
o·ver·po·lice, verb (used with object), -liced, -lic·ing.
pre·po·lice, adjective
self-po·lic·ing, adjective
un·po·liced, adjective
well-po·liced, adjective
Pronunciation note
Many English words exemplify the original stress rule of Old English and other early Germanic languages, according to which all parts of speech except unprefixed verbs were stressed on the first syllable, and prefixed verbs were stressed on the syllable immediately following the prefix. Although the scope of this rule has been greatly restricted by the incorporation into English of loanwords that exhibit other stress patterns, the rule has always remained operative to some degree, and many loanwords have been conformed to it throughout the history of English. For South Midland and Midland U.S. speakers in particular, shifting the stress in borrowed nouns from a noninitial syllable to the first syllable is still an active process, yielding
[poh-lees] for police and [dee-troit] for Detroit, as well as cement, cigar, guitar, insurance, umbrella, and idea said as [see-ment], [see-gahr], [git-ahr], [in-shoor-uhns], [uhm-brel-uh], and [ahy-deeuh].
Many English words exemplify the original stress rule of Old English and other early Germanic languages, according to which all parts of speech except unprefixed verbs were stressed on the first syllable, and prefixed verbs were stressed on the syllable immediately following the prefix. Although the scope of this rule has been greatly restricted by the incorporation into English of loanwords that exhibit other stress patterns, the rule has always remained operative to some degree, and many loanwords have been conformed to it throughout the history of English. For South Midland and Midland U.S. speakers in particular, shifting the stress in borrowed nouns from a noninitial syllable to the first syllable is still an active process, yielding
[poh-lees] for police and [dee-troit] for Detroit, as well as cement, cigar, guitar, insurance, umbrella, and idea said as [see-ment], [see-gahr], [git-ahr], [in-shoor-uhns], [uhm-brel-uh], and [ahy-deeuh].
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Word Origin & History
police
c.1530, at first essentially the same word as policy (1); from M.Fr. police (1477), from L. politia "civil administration," from Gk. polis "city" (see policy (1)). Still used in Eng. for "civil administration" until mid-19c.; application to "administration
EXPANDof public order" (1716) is from Fr., and originally referred to France or other foreign nations. The first force so-named in Eng. was the Marine Police, set up 1798 to protect merchandise at the Port of London. The verb "to keep order by means of police" is from 1841; policeman is from 1829. Police state "state regulated by means of national police" first recorded 1865, with ref. to Austria.
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