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  • noun One who, or that which, polices.

Etymologies

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police +‎ -er

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Examples

  • As President Obama attempts to put all the pieces in place for a regional plan, the roles of Egypt -- mediator on Hamas issues, negotiator on Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier abducted and imprisoned by Hamas, enhanced policer of the Egypt-Gaza border -- is appreciated by the US Administration.

    Obama's Impact on the Middle East Peace Process Peter A. Joseph 2010

  • As President Obama attempts to put all the pieces in place for a regional plan, the roles of Egypt -- mediator on Hamas issues, negotiator on Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier abducted and imprisoned by Hamas, enhanced policer of the Egypt-Gaza border -- is appreciated by the US Administration.

    Peter A. Joseph: Obama's Impact on the Middle East Peace Process Peter A. Joseph 2010

  • As President Obama attempts to put all the pieces in place for a regional plan, the roles of Egypt -- mediator on Hamas issues, negotiator on Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier abducted and imprisoned by Hamas, enhanced policer of the Egypt-Gaza border -- is appreciated by the US Administration.

    Peter A. Joseph: Obama's Impact on the Middle East Peace Process 2010

  • Here was the definer of the capital's consensus, the policer of its ideological boundaries, seemingly offering to adjust its vast reserves of Washington wisdom for you if the price was right.

    Thomas Frank: When Newspapers Peddle Influence 2009

  • As President Obama attempts to put all the pieces in place for a regional plan, the roles of Egypt -- mediator on Hamas issues, negotiator on Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier abducted and imprisoned by Hamas, enhanced policer of the Egypt-Gaza border -- is appreciated by the US Administration.

    Peter A. Joseph: Obama's Impact on the Middle East Peace Process 2009

  • There never seems to be enough policer officers in Canadian cities, and security companies are finding themselves increasingly on the “front line.”

    Some Velvet Machine « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

  • Here was the definer of the capital's consensus, the policer of its ideological boundaries, seemingly offering to adjust its vast reserves of Washington wisdom for you if the price was right.

    When Newspapers Peddle Influence By Thomas Frank 2009

  • World of Hate: A New York Cop and the Tennessee Trucker yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'World of Hate: A New York Cop and the Tennessee Trucker'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Something connects the victims of the church shooting in Tennessee and a 29 year old man knocked from his bike by a policer officer in NYC.

    World of Hate: A New York Cop and the Tennessee Trucker 2008

  • This doesnt strike me as the kind of rhetoric that youd get from an ardent policer of conversation.

    Paranoid fantasy on the web Michael Allen 2005

  • On se proposoit même de les policer avec le tems, et de les accoûtumer à ne plus vivre que du travail de leurs mains.

    The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) George Warburton 1836

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