police

Betekenis

Noun

1. A public agency charged with enforcing laws and maintaining public order, usually being granted special privileges to do so, particularly
2. A public agency charged with enforcing laws and maintaining public order, usually being granted special privileges to do so, particularly
3. A public agency charged with enforcing laws and maintaining public order, usually being granted special privileges to do so, particularly
4. A public agency charged with enforcing laws and maintaining public order, usually being granted special privileges to do so, particularly
5. The staff of such a department or agency, particularly its officers; (regional, chiefly US, Caribbean, Jamaica, Scotland, countable) an individual police officer.
6. People who try to enforce norms or standards as if granted authority similar to the police.
7. (slang) Cleanup of a military facility, as a formal duty.
8. Synonym of administration, the regulation of a community or society.
9. (obsolete) Alternative form of policy.
10. (obsolete) Alternative form of polity, civilization, a regulated community.

Verb

1. To enforce the law and keep order among (a group).
2. (slang) To clean up an area.
3. To enforce norms or standards upon.

Koppelteken as

po‧lice

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/pəˈliːs/

Etimologie

From Middle French police, from Latin polītīa (“state, government”), from Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeía). Doublet of policy and polity.

Sinne

Subsequently , he has given a statement to the police .

Vann knows that the police will eventually tie the murders to him .