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gendarmerie
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun gendarmerie has 1 sense
- gendarmerie(n = noun.group) gendarmery - French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively; Array is a kind of constabulary, law, police, police force
CIDE DICTIONARY
gendarmerie, n. [F. gendarmerie.].
The French police force; the body of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
gendarmerie
Jurisdiction
N jurisdiction, judicature, administration of justice, soc, executive, commission of the peace, magistracy, judge, tribunal, municipality, corporation, bailiwick, shrievalty, lord lieutenant, sheriff, shire reeve, shrieve, constable, selectman, police, police force, the fuzz, constabulary, bumbledom, gendarmerie, officer, bailiff, tipstaff, bum-bailiff, catchpoll, beadle, policeman, cop, police constable, police sergeant, sbirro, alguazil, gendarme, kavass, lictor, mace bearer, huissier, bedel, tithingman, press gang, exciseman, gauger, gager, customhouse officer, douanier, coroner, edile, aedile, portreeve, paritor, posse comitatus, bureau, cutcherry, department, secretariat, long arm of the law, extradition, executive, administrative, municipal, inquisitorial, causidical, judicatory, judiciary, judicial, juridical, coram judice.
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