gendarmerie

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Diplomats explained that several EU countries were expected to send "gendarmerie" - type effectives, because such forces are most suited to quick deployment.

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  1. noun A body of French gendarmes.
  2. noun Slang A group of police officers.

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  • The mayor's calling the gendarmerie His van was found at the edge of the road, with a burst tire. —  Georges Simenon - Maigret - The Group at the Grand Café
  • But these are all minor and hopefully dwindling commitments, really closer to gendarmerie-level, and it's difficult to see where else in Europe something like that might be needed. —  A Fistful Of Euros » A Fistful Of Euros
  • Turkey's gendarmerie, a paramilitary force operating, in theory, jointly with the police to ensure law and order, has long been under pressure to restructure itself and act under the orders of the civilian authority and not the Turkish military. —  TODAY'S ZAMAN :: News
  • Military forces are supplemented by a 60,000-member national gendarmerie, a rural police force, under the control of the president and a 30,000-member Sureté Nationale or Metropolitan Police force under the Ministry of the Interior.
  • La gendarmerie, acteur paradoxal de la 'sécurité intérieure-extérieure —  Le Monde diplomatique - English edition
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  1. French, from Old French, calvary, from gent d'armes, gendarme, mounted soldier; see gendarme.
 

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/zhɑnˈdɑrməri, jɛnˈdɑrməri/
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