{
    "term": "police",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "an official organization whose job is to make people obey the law and to prevent and solve crime; the people who work for this organization",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Get out of the house or **I'll call the police**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**Contact the police **if you see anything suspicious."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The **police arrested** three men and took them for questioning."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**Police are investigating **the break-in."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**Armed police **soon arrived on the scene."
                },
                {
                    "text": "traffic/transport police"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Hundreds of police in riot gear struggled to control the violence."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **police car**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the **police investigation** into the killings"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Contact your local police department to file a report."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'd really rather not involve the police."
                },
                {
                    "text": "No arrest has been made, but a man is helping the police with their enquiries."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Police have appealed for witnesses to come forward."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The police arrived to break up the battle."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The police charged him with impaired driving."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had a police record."
                },
                {
                    "text": "All prosecution witnesses were given police protection."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He spent the night in a police cell after his arrest."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was held in police custody for a month"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Nine arrests were made in a series of police raids across the city."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Some protesters managed to break through the police cordon."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The visiting fans returned to the railway station under police escort."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There was a huge police presence at the demonstration."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A man was arrested by the police and held for questioning."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Police suspect a local gang."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Law and justice"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["armed", "mounted", "plain-clothes"],
                "verb + police": ["call", "contact", "alert"],
                "police + verb": [
                    "arrest somebody",
                    "detain somebody",
                    "catch somebody"
                ],
                "police + noun": ["captain", "chief", "commissioner"],
                "phrases": [
                    "helping the police with their enquiries",
                    "in police custody"
                ]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/pəˈliːs/",
                "audio": "po/police/police__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/pəˈliːs/",
                "audio": "po/police/police__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 15th cent. (in the sense ‘public order’): from French, from medieval Latin politia ‘citizenship, government’, from Greek politeia ‘citizenship’, from politēs ‘citizen’, from polis ‘city’. Current senses date from the early 19th cent."
}