attorney vs police

attorney

noun
  • An agent or representative authorized to act on someone else's behalf. 

  • A solicitor. 

  • An honorific given to lawyers and notaries public, or those holders by profession who also do other jobs. Usually capitalized or abbreviated as Atty. 

  • Clusia spp. 

  • A prosecutor 

  • A lawyer; one who advises or represents others in legal matters as a profession. 

verb
  • To work as a legal attorney. 

  • To provide with a legal attorney. 

police

noun
  • A public agency charged with enforcing laws and maintaining public order, usually being granted special privileges to do so, particularly 

  • The staff of such a department or agency, particularly its officers; (regional, chiefly US, Caribbean, Jamaica, Scotland, countable) an individual police officer. 

  • Any of the formally enacted law enforcement agencies at various levels of government. 

  • A branch of the Home Office responsible for general law enforcement within a specific territory. 

  • A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement. 

  • People who try to enforce norms or standards as if granted authority similar to the police. 

  • Cleanup of a military facility, as a formal duty. 

verb
  • To clean up an area. 

  • To enforce norms or standards upon. 

  • To enforce the law and keep order among (a group). 

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