police
/pəˈlis/ sustantivo A2En español: policía, tombería
- A constituted body of officers representing the civil authority of government, empowered to maintain public order and safety, enforce the law, and prevent, detect, and investigate crime. · Call the police!· Police! help! Police! help!
- A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement.
- The staff of such a department or agency, particularly its officers; (regional, chiefly US, Caribbean, Jamaica, Scotland, countable) an individual police officer.
- People who try to enforce norms or standards as if granted authority similar to the police. · Who called the fashion police?
- Cleanup of a military facility, as a formal duty.
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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At the door he met the commissary of police, who was waiting for him.
The antechamber was full of police agents and gendarmes, in the midst of whom, carefully watched, but calm and smiling, stood the prisoner.
“Who and what are you?” demanded Villefort, turning over a pile of papers, containing information relative to the prisoner, that a police agent had given to him on his entry, and that, already, in an hour’s time, had swelled to voluminous proportions, thanks to the corrupt espionage of which “the accused” is always made the victim.
A police agent entered.
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