Definition of police

• n. - A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough.
• n. - That which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state.
• n. - The organized body of civil officers in a city, town, or district, whose particular duties are the preservation of good order, the prevention and detection of crime, and the enforcement of the laws.
• n. - Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison.
• n. - The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state / a camp as to cleanliness.
• v. t. - To keep in order by police.
• v. t. - To make clean; as, to police a camp.