police

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

police

policier

gendarmerie

flic

policierère

contrôler

officier de police

uniforme

mettre un frein

fliquer

surveiller

patrouille

droit

loi

agent

agent de police

cogne

gardien de la paix

gendarme

keuf

policière

condé

poulaille

schtroumpf

Coupé comme

po‧lice

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/pəˈliːs/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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

Phrases

Subsequently , he has given a statement to the police .

Par la suite, il a fait une déclaration à la police.

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

Vann sait que la police finira par lui lier les meurtres.