Police

What do we mean by police?

A body of government employees trained in methods of law enforcement and crime prevention and detection and authorized to maintain the peace, safety, and order of the community. noun

A body of persons with a similar organization and function. noun

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. noun

A group that admonishes, cautions, or reminds. noun

The cleaning of a military base or other military area. noun

The soldiers assigned to a specified maintenance duty. noun

To regulate, control, or keep in order with a law enforcement agency or other official group. transitive verb

To observe and issue warnings or correctives regarding. transitive verb

To make (a military area, for example) neat in appearance. transitive verb

Public order; the regulation of a country or district with reference to the maintenance of order; more specifically, the power of each state, when exercised (either directly by its legislature or through its municipalities) for the suppression or regulation of whatever is injurious to the peace, health, morality, general intelligence, and thrift of the community, and its internal safety. noun

An organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws; the body of men by whom the municipal laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town or borough, or rural district are enforced. noun

In the United States army, the act or process of policing (see police, v., 2): a kind of fatigue duty: as, to go on police; to do police. noun

A civil police having a military organization. Such are the French gendarmerie, the sbirri of Italy, and the Irish constabulary. noun

In Scotland, one of a body elected by the ratepayers to manage police affairs in burghs. noun

To watch, guard, or maintain order in; protect or control by means of a body of policemen: as, to police a district; to police the inland waters of a country.

To clean up; clear out; put in order: as, to police the parade-ground.

A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough. noun

That which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state. noun

A civil force granted the legal authority for law enforcement and maintaining public order.

A police officer.

People who seek to enforce norms or standards.

The duty of cleaning up.

Policy.

Communal living; civilization.

The regulation of a given community or society; administration, law and order etc.

Words that are spelled similarly to police:
police, policy, polite, polive, pollice, polich, polica.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word police:
brutality, constabulary, policing, constable, officers, inspector, detective, arrest, suspect, tear, commissioner, custody, officer, arrested, enforcement, riot, investigation, crime, sergeant, superintendent, patrol, department, arrive, suspected, investigate, corruption, raid, criminal, murder, force, charged, jail, crimes, chief, charges, crowd, gang, incident, agencies, security, convicted, headquarters, alleged, protest.

Words that rhyme with police:
piece, peace, increase, release, nice, niece, cease, lease, caprice, fleece, grease, decrease, crease, obese, masterpiece, cerise, apiece, neice, legalese, decease, geese, mouthpiece, elise, greece, reese, vietnamese, timepiece, centerpiece, pease, luis, sublease, denise, maurice, aris, gees, eyepiece, altarpiece, tunis, showpiece, seis, suisse, rhys, neisse, viennese, reece, syntheses, elbow grease, devries, justice of the peace, greenpeace, bernice, crosspiece, leese, peece, breach of the peace, meese, set piece, speiss, tese, sangiovese, felice, golden fleece, press release, cece, chess piece, giese, patrice, preece, reise, at peace, neace, cleese, weise, meece, lollis, magness, yeas, clarisse, goose grease, maryse, clarice, riess, conversation piece, kiss of peace, denice, brocious, treece, wool grease, neece, period piece, leise, make peace, spece, buice, disturbance of the peace, dease, pipe of peace, hair grease, haese, knee piece.

Adjectives that are often used to describe police:
secret, local, military, political, french, armed, german, british, riot, regular, japanese, national, special, indian, municipal, soviet, uniformed, civil, rural, native, russian, internal, federal, italian, civilian, south, austrian, international, metropolitan, chinese, mexican, tsarist, criminal, provincial, polish, spanish, efficient, israeli, auxiliary, turkish, judicial, ordinary, extra, tribal, dutch, iraqi, swiss, egyptian, colonial, parisian, sanitary, corrupt, hungarian, communist, irish, belgian, palestinian, serbian, czech, vigilant, east, paramilitary, canadian, imperial, portuguese, czarist, fascist, prussian.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective police:
officer, station, court, power, force, state, department, constable, sergeant, office, community, car, inspector, officers, chief, spy, magistrate, agent, van, agencies, regulations, master, boat, courts, protection, report, captain, powers, brutality, dog, stations, magistrates, cell, headquarters, commissioners, woman, boy, surgeon, commissioner, detective, administration, citizen, confrontation, training, regulation, official, cooperation, whistle, activities, confrontations, raid, statistics, supervision, acts, post, attitudes, reports, records, informer, patrol, conflict, duty, fund, band, barrack, discretion, operations, guard, organizations, commission, departments, establishment, practices, investigation, interrogation, spies, surveillance, chiefs, soldier, justice, clash, sentiments, reporter, tactics, radio, contd, corruption.

Consonant match to police:
palace, pelisse, polis, pallas, pilus, pileous, perlis, paillasse, paulus, palus, pilous, payless, pullus, pylos, paleous, poulos, polus, poleless, p less, pal s, pale lace, paul s, paul us, pay less, pol ice, pol s, poolas, powless, pulice, pull us, pur les.

Words that sound like police:
police, pilous, -polis, balise, pelisse, pilus, pelouse, pilis, palace, pulse, polis, payless, pallas, pulleys, policed, paulus, pylos, pily, pollies, poulos, palas, pay less, palouse, palis, pulis, polus, pollice, pulps, polys, pullus, policer, pollis, pileus, pilos, paillasse, paulis, palus, palass, bulis, pillows, pelts, pelly, peleus, peli, pelley, pelee, pilli, peltz, pelas, pelea, pilea, piltz, pileous, place, please, pleas, bellies, belize, paly, paleo, pally, pauly, plas, paulie, pali, billies, pauli, opolis, paley, pauley, bellis, palely, pili, plass, palais, palos, paoli, piceous, pearlies, palio, beliz, bellus, plasse, belos, bilis, palli, pawley, pilose, palps, perlis, palash, paulos, palast, pilas, paleo-, opalesce, palliasse, palea, perlous, opalise.