transcription, транскрипция: [ pəli:s ]
( polices, policing, policed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
The police are the official organization that is responsible for making sure that people obey the law.
The police are also looking for a second car...
Police say they have arrested twenty people following the disturbances...
I noticed a police car shadowing us.
N-SING-COLL
2.
Police are men and women who are members of the official organization that is responsible for making sure that people obey the law.
More than one hundred police have ringed the area.
N-PLURAL
3.
If the police or military forces police an area or event, they make sure that law and order is preserved in that area or at that event.
...the tiny UN observer force whose job it is to police the border...
The march was heavily policed.
VERB : V n , V-ed
see also secret police
• po‧lic‧ing
...the policing of public places.
N-UNCOUNT
see also community policing
4.
If a person or group in authority polices a law or an area of public life, they make sure that what is done is fair and legal.
...Imro, the self-regulatory body that polices the investment management business.
VERB : V n
• po‧lic‧ing
Policing of business courses varies widely.
N-UNCOUNT