police

Значение

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.

Пишется через дефис как

po‧lice

Произносится как (IPA)

/pəˈliːs/

Этимология

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

Предложения

Subsequently , he has given a statement to the police .

Впоследствии он дал заявление полиции.

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

Ванн знает, что полиция в конечном итоге свяжет его убийства.