1. • noun - the force of policemen and officers
   • verb - maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol
2. • The governmental department charged with the regulation and control of the affairs of a community, now chiefly the department established to maintain order, enforce the law, and prevent and detect crime.
   • A body of persons making up such a department, trained in methods of law enforcement and crime prevention and detection and given the authority to maintain the peace, safety, and order of the community.
   • A body of persons having similar organization and function: campus police.
   • Police officers considered as a group.
   • Regulation and control of the affairs of a community, especially with respect to maintenance of order, law, health, morals, safety, and other matters affecting the public welfare.
   • The cleaning of a military base or other military area: Police of the barracks must be completed before inspection can take place.
   • Often used to modify another noun: police uniforms; the police department.
   • To regulate, control, or keep in order with or as if with a law enforcement agency.
   • To make (a military area, for example) neat in appearance: policed the barracks; policing up one’s room.
3. • v - to make clean or orderly

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