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police action

noun

a relatively localized military action undertaken by regular armed forces, without a formal declaration of war, against guerrillas, insurgents, or other forces held to be violating international peace and order.

First recorded in 1880–85

This month a judge intervened and granted a 30-day temporary stay on police action against Abbott.

Even critics of the protests are asking serious questions about the police action.

Each of them showed rioting crowds and defensive police action; the commentaries cried their confusion.

As Al left, President Wong saw the order for the police action on his desk.

His hand strayed over to the order he had signed that morning for a police action, then drifted aimlessly away.

Then he noticed that he had put the police action order back into his outgoing basket.

I didn't mean that contact, so much as I meant taking some police action.

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