警けい察さつ
Meanings
Noun
1. police
There is nothing left to do but leave it to the police.
2. police officer
3. police station
If you were attacked, you should go to the police station.
Colloquialism
4. self-appointed enforcer (of a rule, standard, etc.); busybody; vigilante; gatekeeper
Kanji used
to police (something)
guess
Pitch accent
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いさつ
Top 1900
Used in vocabulary (62 in total)
police officer; policeman; policewoman
National Police Agency; NPA
police identification card
head of a police station; chief of a police station; superintendent
police force; police squad
(the relevant) police authorities
police surgeon; police medical officer
state police; provincial police
railway police; railroad police
federal police (US, Brazil, Australia, etc.)
Special Higher Police (1911-1945); police unit controlling political thought and expression
prefectural police
matter for the police; brush with the law
criminal police; detective force
(the state of) anarchy
Police Act; police laws; laws governing police
National Research Institute of Police Science
National Police Reserve; Japan Police Reserve Corps
detective story; police novel
Special Higher Police (1911-1945); police unit controlling political thought and expression
security police; peace preservation police
local government police; municipal police
police violence; police brutality
National Police Academy
self-appointed enforcer of business closure and stay-at-home requests during the COVID-19 pandemic; pandemic police; virus vigilante
Japan Police Personnel Mutual Aid Association
police certification; police clearance
morality police (e.g. in Iran)
just saying sorry isn't enough; sorry won't cut it; (lit.) if "sorry" were all it took (to settle things), we wouldn't need police
Examples (136 in total)
Did the police take action?
I went to the police.
Hello, is this the police?