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police action
noun
- a relatively localized military action undertaken by regular armed forces, without a formal declaration of war, against guerrillas, insurgents, or other forces held to be violating international peace and order.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of police action1
First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences
This month a judge intervened and granted a 30-day temporary stay on police action against Abbott.
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Even critics of the protests are asking serious questions about the police action.
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Each of them showed rioting crowds and defensive police action; the commentaries cried their confusion.
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As Al left, President Wong saw the order for the police action on his desk.
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His hand strayed over to the order he had signed that morning for a police action, then drifted aimlessly away.
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Then he noticed that he had put the police action order back into his outgoing basket.
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I didn't mean that contact, so much as I meant taking some police action.
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