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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. |
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That which concerns the order of the community; the
internal regulation of a state. |
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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. |
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Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve
civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison. |
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The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state / a camp
as to cleanliness. |
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To keep in order by police. |
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To make clean; as, to police a camp. |