constabulary

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"[13-55] Huebner later recalled that the constabulary was his outfit, to be run his way, and "Bradley and Collins always let me do what I had to.

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  1. noun The body of constables of a district or city.
  2. noun The district under the jurisdiction of a constable.
  3. noun An armed police force organized like a military unit.

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  • Trevine tells me that Fanmole believed the knocking heralded the arrival of the constabulary, and that this precipitated his fatal decision to flee I am informed that goods worth several thousand pounds were found in the shed which Fanmole rented by the Gorge. —  EQMM,January2007
  • "You don't look like the constabulary, I must say Come on, out with it The expression that now came to the clerk's face indicated he was going to tell them to go to hell, either in those words, or more politely Don't say it," Monk advised him. —  162 - Three Times a Corpse
  • If we're lucky we'll have at least fifteen minutes before the local constabulary is alerted. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 06 - December 1996
  • The theory is that a third party wanted to approach the house from the back in the temporary absence of the constabulary, and disseminate the house, its contents, and the inhabitants into the air and the immediate vicinity by the gentle and persuasive influence of dynamite. —  The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
  • Observing that the constabulary was on to him, James Schneider went once again to ground like the serpent that he was, seeking accommodations — it is speculated — in the cellars of the city's many tenant-houses (which the reader may perchance recognize as the still-prevalent "tenements"). —  The Bone Collector
 

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  1. from Middle Latin constabularius, pertaining to a constable (feminine constabularia, the office or jurisdiction of a constable, a company of soldiers), from constabulus, a constable: see constable.
 

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/kənˈstæbjuləri/
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