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    CONSTABULARY

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The force of policemen and officersplay

    Example:

    the law came looking for him

    Synonyms:

    constabulary; law; police; police force

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

    Hypernyms ("constabulary" is a kind of...):

    force; personnel (group of people willing to obey orders)

    law enforcement agency (an agency responsible for insuring obedience to the laws)

    Meronyms (members of "constabulary"):

    officer; police officer; policeman (a member of a police force)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "constabulary"):

    European Law Enforcement Organisation; Europol (police organization for the European Union; aims to improve effectiveness and cooperation among European police forces)

    gendarmerie; gendarmery (French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively)

    Mutawa; Mutawa'een (religious police in Saudi Arabia whose duty is to ensure strict adherence to established codes of conduct; offenders may be detained indefinitely; foreigners are not excluded)

    Mounties; RCMP; Royal Canadian Mounted Police (the federal police force of Canada)

    New Scotland Yard; Scotland Yard (the detective department of the metropolitan police force of London)

    secret police (a police force that operates in secrecy (usually against persons suspected of treason or sedition))

    Schutzstaffel; SS (special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps)

    posse; posse comitatus (a temporary police force)

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