Usually means: Group of people with purpose.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word posse:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. posse: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. posse, posse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. posse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. posse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. posse: Vocabulary.com
  6. Posse, posse: Wordnik
  7. posse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. posse: Wiktionary
  9. posse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. posse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. posse: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Posse, posse: Dictionary.com
  13. posse: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. posse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Posse (I Need You on the Floor), Posse (band), Posse (film), Posse (horse), Posse (law enforcement), Posse (surname), Posse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Posse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. posse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. posse: Rhymezone
  19. Posse (f), posse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. Posse: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. posse: Free Dictionary
  22. posse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. posse: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. posse: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. posse: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. The Posse, posse: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Posse, posse: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. POSSE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. posse: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. posse: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. The Posse: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A group or company of people, originally especially one having hostile intent; a throng, a crowd.
noun:  (now historical, in later use chiefly US) A group of people summoned to help law enforcement.
noun:  (US) A search party.
noun:  (US, Jamaica, slang) A criminal gang.
noun:  (colloquial) A group of (especially young) people seen as constituting a peer group or band of associates; a gang, a group of friends.

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