police vs sergeant

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). 

sergeant

noun
  • A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign. 

  • A fish, the cobia. 

  • A bailiff. 

  • The highest rank of noncommissioned officer in some non-naval military forces and police. 

  • UK army rank with NATO code OR-6, senior to corporal and junior to warrant officer ranks. 

  • Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Athyma; distinguished from the false sergeants. 

  • A lawyer of the highest rank, equivalent to the doctor of civil law. 

  • A servant in monastic offices. 

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