Police vs. Cop
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.
Copnoun
(obsolete) A spider.
Copnoun
A police officer or prison guard.
Copnoun
(crafts) The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
Copnoun
(obsolete) The top, summit, especially of a hill.
Copnoun
(obsolete) The crown (of the head); also the head itself.
Copnoun
A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
Copnoun
A merlon.
Copverb
To obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to take.
Copverb
(transitive) To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
Copverb
To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
Copverb
(transitive) To steal.
Copverb
(transitive) To adopt.
Copverb
(transitive) To earn by bad behavior.
Copverb
to admit, especially to a crime.
Copnoun
The top of a thing; the head; a crest.
Copnoun
A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.
Copnoun
A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
Copnoun
Same as Merlon.
Copnoun
A policeman.
Copnoun
uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
Copverb
take by theft;
Copverb
take into custody;
Copnoun
a police officer
Copnoun
shrewdness; practical intelligence
Copnoun
a conical mass of thread wound on to a spindle.
Copverb
catch or arrest (an offender)
Copverb
incur (something unwelcome)
Copverb
get into trouble
Copverb
be killed
Copverb
receive or attain (something welcome)
Copverb
obtain (an illegal drug)
Copverb
strike (an attitude or pose)
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