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self-police

self-police verb: to police and monitor amongst themselves without resorting to an external organisation.

Verb

self-police (third-person singular simple present self-polices, present participle self-policing, simple past and past participle self-policed)

  1. To police and monitor amongst themselves without resorting to an external organisation.
    • Because they will largely have to self-police this - train operators and the British Transport Police will not be able to enforce the use of face coverings, for example.2020 May 20, Stefanie Foster, “Comment: Safety first: now more than ever”, in Rail, page 3

Forms of self-police

third-person singular presentself-polices
present participleself-policing
past participleself-policed
pastself-policed

Origin of self-police

From self- + police.

Questions about self-police

What does self-police mean?
Self-police means to police and monitor amongst themselves without resorting to an external organisation.
What part of speech is self-police?
Self-police is a verb.
What is the past tense of self-police?
The past tense of self-police is self-policed.

Words near self-police in the dictionary

  1. self-pleached
  2. self-pleasing
  3. self-pleasure
  4. self-pleasurer
  5. self-pleasurers
  6. self-police
  7. self-policed
  8. self-polices
  9. self-policing
  10. self-pollinating
  11. self-pollination

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