Police Definition–noun | 1. | Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws. | | 2. | (used with a plural verb ) members of such a force: Several police are patrolling the neighborhood. | | 3. | the regulation and control of a community, esp. for the maintenance of public order, safety, health, morals, etc. | | 4. | the department of the government concerned with this, esp. with the maintenance of order. | | 5. | any body of people officially maintained or employed to keep order, enforce regulations, etc
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. | | 6. | people who seek to regulate a specified activity, practice, etc.: the language police. | | 7. | Military. (in the U.S. Army) | a. | the cleaning and keeping clean of a camp, post, station, etc. | | b. | the condition of a camp, post, station, etc., with reference to cleanliness. | | –verb (used with object) | 8. | to regulate, control, or keep in order by or as if by means of police. | | 9. | Military. to clean and keep clean (a camp, post, etc.) | |
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Baton Definition–noun | 1. | Music. a wand used by a conductor. | | 2. | a rod of lightweight metal fitted with a weighted bulb at each end and carried and twirled by a drum major or majorette. | | 3. | Track. a hollow rod of wood, paper, or plastic that is passed during a race from one member of a relay team to the next in a prescribed area. | | 4. | a staff, club, or truncheon, esp. one serving as a mark of office or authority. | | 5. | Heraldry. | a. | a diminutive of the bend sinister, couped at the extremities: used in England as a mark of bastardy. | | b. | a similar diminutive of the ordinary bend. | | |
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