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po·lice   (pə-lēs')   
n.   pl. police
  1. The governmental department charged with the regulation and control of the affairs of a community, now chiefly the department established to maintain order, enforce the law, and prevent and detect crime.
    1. A body of persons making up such a department, trained in methods of law enforcement and crime prevention and detection and authorized to maintain the peace, safety, and order of the community.
    2. A body of persons having similar organization and function: campus police. Also called police force.
    3. The cleaning of a military base or other military area: Police of the barracks must be completed before inspection.
    4. The soldiers assigned to a specified maintenance duty.
  3. (used with a pl. verb) Police officers considered as a group.
  4. Regulation and control of the affairs of a community, especially with respect to maintenance of order, law, health, morals, safety, and other matters affecting the public welfare.
  5. Informal A group that admonishes, cautions, or reminds: grammar police; fashion police.
    1. The cleaning of a military base or other military area: Police of the barracks must be completed before inspection.
    2. The soldiers assigned to a specified maintenance duty.
tr.v.   po·liced, po·lic·ing, po·lic·es
  1. To regulate, control, or keep in order with or as if with a law enforcement agency.
  2. To make (a military area, for example) neat in appearance: policed the barracks.

[French, from Old French policie, civil organization, from Late Latin polītīa, from Latin, the State, from Greek polīteia, from polītēs, citizen, from polis, city; see pelə-3 in Indo-European roots.]
po·lice'a·ble adj., po·lic'er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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