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▸ noun:  A public agency charged with enforcing laws and maintaining public order, usually being granted special privileges to do so, particularly
▸ noun:  (Canada, US and historical) A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement.
▸ noun:  (UK) A branch of the Home Office responsible for general law enforcement within a specific territory.
▸ noun:  (Australia, New Zealand) Any of the formally enacted law enforcement agencies at various levels of government.
▸ noun:  (usually plural only) The staff of such a department or agency, particularly its officers; (regional, chiefly US, Caribbean, Jamaica, Scotland, countable) an individual police officer.
▸ noun:  (figuratively, usually ironic and mildly derogatory) People who try to enforce norms or standards as if granted authority similar to the police.
▸ noun:  (military, slang) Cleanup of a military facility, as a formal duty.
▸ noun:  (archaic, now rare) Synonym of administration, the regulation of a community or society.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To enforce the law and keep order among (a group).
▸ verb:  (transitive, intransitive, military, slang) To clean up an area.
▸ verb:  (transitive, figurative) To enforce norms or standards upon.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Alternative form of policy. [A principle of behaviour, conduct etc. thought to be desirable or necessary, especially as formally expressed by a government or other authoritative body.]
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Alternative form of polity, civilization, a regulated community. [(politics, religion, usually uncountable) Organizational structure and governance, especially of a state or a religion.]

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