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.
To clean up an area.
To enforce norms or standards upon.
To enforce the law and keep order among (a group).
A power of an overseeing authority to suspend legislation in the jurisdiction being overseen pending the approval of a higher authority. Such as a provincial/state governor reserving a bill passed by the state/provincial legislature from assent, pending approval of the federal government; or a federal bill passed by federal parliament being reserved by the viceroy pending approval by the crown.
The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway or dual carriageway; see also central reservation.
The practice of reserving part of the consecrated bread of the Eucharist for the communion of the sick.
Something that is withheld or kept back.
A limiting qualification regarding certainty; a doubt.
An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.
A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people; Indian reservation (compare Canadian reserve).
The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
The act of the pope to reserve to himself the right to nominate to certain benefices.
The setting aside of a certain percentage of vacancies in government institutions for members of backward and underrepresented communities (defined primarily by caste and tribe).