1. Noun
A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough.
2. Noun
That which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state.
3. Noun
The organized body of civil officers in a city, town, or district, whose particular duties are the preservation of good order, the prevention and detection of crime, and the enforcement of the laws.
4. Noun
Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison.
5. Noun
The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state / a camp as to cleanliness.
6. Verb
To keep in order by police.
7. Verb
To make clean; as, to police a camp.
8. Noun
the force of policemen and officers; "the law came looking for him"
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