how to pronounce police

/pəˈliːs/

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police is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of police in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… stolen police camera and his wallet …”

meaning of police

A police is the organisation of people who are employed by a government to enforce the law.

police frequency in english - A1 level of CEFR

the word police occurs in english on average 278.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics police can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that police can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;