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self-policing

self-policing is the present participle and gerund of self-police.

Meaning of self-police

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

Questions about self-policing

What is self-policing the present participle and gerund of?
Self-policing is the present participle and gerund of self-police.

Words near self-policing in the dictionary

  1. self-pleasurer
  2. self-pleasurers
  3. self-police
  4. self-policed
  5. self-polices
  6. self-policing
  7. self-pollinating
  8. self-pollination
  9. self-pollinations
  10. self-pollute
  11. self-polluted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: self-policing (page history and authors); self-police (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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