Index of English words, starting with "po"

(1) - Police (v. t.) To make clean; as, to police a camp.
(2) - Police (v. t.) To keep in order by police.
(3) - Police (n.) The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state / a camp as to cleanliness.
(4) - Police (n.) Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison.
(5) - Police (n.) 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.
(6) - Police (n.) That which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state.
(7) - Police (n.) 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.

(1) - Policeman (n.) A member of a body of police; a constable.

(1) - Policy (n.) A method of gambling by betting as to what numbers will be drawn in a lottery; as, to play policy.
(2) - Policy (n.) The writing or instrument in which a contract of insurance is embodied; an instrument in writing containing the terms and conditions on which one party engages to indemnify another against loss arising from certain hazards, perils, or risks to which his person or property may be exposed. See Insurance.
(3) - Policy (n.) A ticket or warrant for money in the public funds.
(4) - Policy (v. t.) To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.
(5) - Policy (n.) Motive; object; inducement.
(6) - Policy (n.) Prudence or wisdom in the management of public and private affairs; wisdom; sagacity; wit.
(7) - Policy (n.) Management or administration based on temporal or material interest, rather than on principles of equity or honor; hence, worldly wisdom; dexterity of management; cunning; stratagem.
(8) - Policy (n.) The method by which any institution is administered; system of management; course.
(9) - Policy (n.) The settled method by which the government and affairs of a nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public or official administration, as designed to promote the external or internal prosperity of a state.
(10) - Policy (n.) Civil polity.