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gendarmerie
/ ʒɒnˈdɑːmərɪ, ʒɑ̃darməri /
noun
the whole corps of gendarmes
the headquarters or barracks of a body of gendarmes
Word History and Origins
Origin of gendarmerie1
Example Sentences
It would be overseen by a committee of officers from the army, gendarmerie and police.
Meeting one of the demands of the protesters, the Senate announced Sunday the dismissal of its president, Richard Ravalomanana, a former general of the gendarmerie paramilitary police.
"We're receiving troubling reports of continued violence against protesters by the gendarmerie," the UN's human rights office said in a post on social media Friday.
Stating the country "no longer needs disturbances", his first appointments to his new cabinet were to the ministries of the armed forces, public security and the gendarmerie.
According to the Irish Times, Winston Churchill demanded a “picked force of white gendarmerie” be deployed in Palestine after facing unrest in 1921.
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