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POLICE FORCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The force of policemen and officers
Example:
the law came looking for him
Synonyms:
constabulary; law; police; police force
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("police force" is a kind of...):
force; personnel (group of people willing to obey orders)
law enforcement agency (an agency responsible for insuring obedience to the laws)
Meronyms (members of "police force"):
officer; police officer; policeman (a member of a police force)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "police force"):
European Law Enforcement Organisation; Europol (police organization for the European Union; aims to improve effectiveness and cooperation among European police forces)
gendarmerie; gendarmery (French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively)
Mutawa; Mutawa'een (religious police in Saudi Arabia whose duty is to ensure strict adherence to established codes of conduct; offenders may be detained indefinitely; foreigners are not excluded)
Mounties; RCMP; Royal Canadian Mounted Police (the federal police force of Canada)
New Scotland Yard; Scotland Yard (the detective department of the metropolitan police force of London)
secret police (a police force that operates in secrecy (usually against persons suspected of treason or sedition))
Schutzstaffel; SS (special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps)
posse; posse comitatus (a temporary police force)
