Synonyms for police
pəˈlis; ˈpoʊ lis; ˈdi trɔɪt; ˈsi mɛnt; ˈsi gɑr; ˈgɪt ɑr; ˈɪn ʃʊər əns; ˈʌm brɛl ə; ˈaɪ diəpo·lice

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1. policenoun

   Synonyms:
   law, filth, heat, 6-up, fuzz, peelers, popo, 5-0, cobblers, woodentops, bobby, pig, cop

2. policenoun

   To enforce the law and keep order among (a group).

   Extra security was hired to police the crowd at the big game.

   Synonyms:
   woodentops, filth, peelers, popo, cop, pig, 6-up, heat, cobblers, law, fuzz, bobby, 5-0

3. policenoun

   Communal living; civilization.

   Synonyms:
   law, 6-up, pig, cobblers, peelers, 5-0, heat, bobby, fuzz, filth, cop, popo, woodentops

4. policenoun

   The regulation of a given community or society; administration, law and order etc.

   Synonyms:
   fuzz, woodentops, filth, cobblers, law, bobby, peelers, pig, cop, 6-up, popo, heat, 5-0

5. policenoun

   A civil force granted the legal authority to enforce the law and maintain public order.

   Synonyms:
   peelers, woodentops, cobblers, heat, law, pig, cop, 6-up, 5-0, filth, fuzz, bobby, popo

6. policenoun

   A police officer.

   Synonyms:
   5-0, heat, pig, filth, cop, popo, 6-up, cobblers, fuzz, bobby, law, peelers, woodentops

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1. police, police force, constabulary, lawverb

   the force of policemen and officers

   "the law came looking for him"

   Synonyms:
   legal philosophy, natural law, practice of law, constabulary, law of nature, jurisprudence, police force, law

2. patrol, policeverb

   maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol

   Synonyms:
   patrol

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1. List of paraphrases for "police":

   policing, policemen, policeman, cops, policía, constable, lapd, constabulary, nypd, officers, c.p.d., polizia, enforcement, font, cop

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1. Robert Sanders:

   Kevin Sumner is one of the best and most highly trained school resource officers in Kentucky, he's a teacher who left that profession to become a police officer. He's totally devoted to kids and schools and education.

2. Andrew Yang:

   The police are going to be a core, core way for us to address the public safety concerns that so many New Yorkers have, and let me be clear, defund the police is the wrong approach for New York City, you have to start by saying to the police very clearly that you are vital to our city's recovery because there is no recovery without public safety.

3. Karla Labas:

   We don't quite know what it will look like but we are confident the police will do a professional job.

4. Jerryl Christmas:

   Their story is not plausible, the police may have mistaken him for someone else when they shot. But he did not have a gun. He was not in that house.

5. Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis:

   This is exactly what Baltimore Police community expects a police officer to do when they see someone with a firearm, why this young man chose to flee on foot when he was approached by two Baltimore police officers, I don't know.