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# constabulary

«constabulary» in Mova's school dictionary: **the police force of an area** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a constabulary, constabularies)

### meaning for a pupil

(UK, Ireland, formal) A constabulary is the police force of an area. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/constabulary/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In Britain many police forces once had «Constabulary» in their names, like «Lancashire Constabulary». In The Wind in the Willows Toad is arrested and taken before the court by the police, and stories call the local police the constabulary. In Ireland, the old Royal Irish Constabulary existed before 1922.

### examples

- The local constabulary searched the woods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/constabulary/#x1)
- He was a constable in the county constabulary. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/constabulary/#x2)
- Toad was a terror to the constabulary. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/constabulary/#x3)
- The constabulary was called to the riot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/constabulary/#x4)
- The Royal Irish Constabulary was disbanded in 1922. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/constabulary/#x5)
- The constabulary put out a warning about scams. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/constabulary/#x6)
- I am a copying-clerk at the police-office; and you know you cannot insult any belonging to the constabulary force without a chastisement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/constabulary/#x7)

### note

Plural: constabularies. Related: constable (a police officer, often of the lowest rank). Pronounced kon-STAB-yoo-luh-ree.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «constabulary» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/constabulary/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.