Floater vs. Police

Floaternoun

Agent noun of float; one who or that which floats.

Floaternoun

An employee of a company who does not have fixed tasks to do but fills in wherever needed, usually when someone else is away.

Floaternoun

(sports) An unaffiliated player.

Floaternoun

(politics) A voter who shifts from party to party, especially one whose vote can be purchased.

Floaternoun

A person, such as a delegate to a convention or a member of a legislature, who represents an irregular constituency, such as one formed by a union of the voters of two counties neither of which has a number sufficient to be allowed a (or an extra) representative of its own.

Floaternoun

One who votes illegally in various polling places or election districts, either under false registration made by himself or under the name of some properly registered person who has not already voted.

Floaternoun

An "extra" male at a dinner party, or a young friend of the hostess, whose assignment is to entertain the female guests.

Floaternoun

A threadlike speck in the visual field that seems to move, possibly caused by degeneration of the vitreous humour.

Floaternoun

(police jargon) A corpse floating in a body of water.

Floaternoun

(vulgar) A piece of faeces that floats.

Floaternoun

Someone who attaches themselves to a group of people, much to the dismay of that group, and repeatedly shows up to participate in group activities despite attempts to get rid of, or “flush,” that person.

Floaternoun

(insurance) A policy covering property at more than one location or which may be in transit.

Floaternoun

(finance) A floating rate bond.

Floaternoun

(surfing) A maneuver in which a surfer transitions above the unbroken face of the wave onto the lip, or on top of the breaking section of the wave.

Floaternoun

(two-up) A coin which does not spin when thrown in the air.

Floaternoun

(AU) A pie floater.

Floaternoun

(India) A sandal.

Floaternoun

A kind of river mussel (genus Anodonta).

Floaternoun

(prison slang) A book circulated between prisoners that is not part of the official prison library.

Floaternoun

One who floats or swims.

Floaternoun

A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.

Floaternoun

A voter who shifts from party to party, esp. one whose vote is purchasable.

Floaternoun

spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens

Floaternoun

a debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills)

Floaternoun

a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support

Floaternoun

an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed

Floaternoun

a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election

Floaternoun

a swimmer who floats in the water

Floaternoun

an object that floats or is capable of floating

Floaternoun

an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location

Floater

Floaters or eye floaters are sometimes visible deposits within the eye's vitreous humour (), which is normally transparent, or between the vitreous and retina. Each floater can be measured by its size, shape, consistency, refractive index, and motility.

Policenoun

A civil force granted the legal authority for law enforcement and maintaining public order.

Policenoun

A police officer.

Policenoun

(obsolete) Policy.

Policenoun

(obsolete) Communal living; civilization.

Policenoun

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

Policeverb

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

Policeverb

(transitive) To patrol or clean up an area.

Policeverb

To enforce norms or standards upon.

Policenoun

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.

Policenoun

That which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state.

Policenoun

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.

Policenoun

Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison.

Policenoun

The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state a camp as to cleanliness.

Policeverb

To keep in order by police.

Policeverb

To make clean; as, to police a camp.

Policenoun

the force of policemen and officers;

Policeverb

maintain the security of by carrying out a control

Police

The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and the use of force legitimized by the state via the monopoly on violence.