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police force

[ puh-lees fawrs ]

noun

  1. Often the force or the Force. the police, an organized civil force for enforcing laws.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of police force1

First recorded in 1830–40

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Example Sentences

Memes that ridiculed political leaders and the Hong Kong Police Force shot through fiber optic cables at light speed.

The group might have condemned violence while still maintaining an adversarial relationship with the police force.

James Trainum was a police officer with the Washington, DC Metropolitan police force.

“For the record, I do not believe unions belong in government—including the police force,” Sherk said in an e-mail.

Despite the actions of a flawed few, it is arguably the finest professional police force in the world.

Once he had been a young cop, determined to work his way up in the police force.

The tribal ward headmanʼs district deputies together constitute the police force of the whole ward.

He was not of the Allied Patrol nor of any branch of the police force that encircled the world in its operations.

There is a police force of about 2000 men, and two battalions of the King's African Rifles are stationed in the protectorate.

A large police force of one hundred and fifty men, and a company of the 72nd depot, comprised the guard in attendance.

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