Meaning

• 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