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underpolice

underpolice verb: to police too little.

Verb

underpolice (third-person singular simple present underpolices, present participle underpolicing, simple past and past participle underpoliced)

  1. (transitive) To police too little.
    • They don’t differ in terms of arrests for violent crime and property crime. However, we find that Black officers make less arrests related to drug offenses. There is this underpolicing argument that you’re making for drug offenses.2020 June 12, Kate Waldock and Luigi Zingales, “Should we defund the police?”, in Capitalisn't

Antonyms of underpolice

Forms of underpolice

third-person singular presentunderpolices
present participleunderpolicing
past participleunderpoliced
pastunderpoliced

Origin of underpolice

From under- + police.

Questions about underpolice

What does underpolice mean?
Underpolice means to police too little.
What part of speech is underpolice?
Underpolice is a verb.
What is the past tense of underpolice?
The past tense of underpolice is underpoliced.

Words near underpolice in the dictionary

  1. underplotting
  2. underpoint
  3. underpointed
  4. underpointing
  5. underpoints
  6. underpolice
  7. underpoliced
  8. underpolicing
  9. underpolluted
  10. underpollution
  11. underpopulate

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