English words for 'Before police involvement.'
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noun
- Initialism of police report.
- (business) Initialism of purchase requisition.
- (sports) Initialism of Paralympic record.
- Initialism of Puerto Rican.
- Initialism of public relations.
- (sports) Initialism of personal record.
- (medicine) A PR interval.
- Initialism of personal representative.
- (tennis) Initialism of protected ranking.
- (software engineering) Initialism of pull request.
- (medicine) Initialism of partial response.
- (hematology) Initialism of prothrombin ratio.
- Initialism of proportional representation.
- (electronics) Abbreviation of preset.
- Initialism of permanent residence.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of progesterone receptor.
- Initialism of personal recognizance (bond).
- a promotion intended to create goodwill for a person or institution
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- (beer, countable) Initialism of India pale ale.
- An IPA file, or an iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, or tvOS app distributed via IPA files.
- (organic chemistry, uncountable) Initialism of isophthalic acid.
- (organic chemistry, uncountable) Initialism of isopropyl acetate.
- Transcription written in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
- (organic chemistry, uncountable) Initialism of isopropyl alcohol.
noun
- (law enforcement) Initialism of police department.
- (sports) Initialism of performance director.
- Initialism of positive deviance.
- (Ireland, politics, historical) Initialism of Progressive Democrat.
- Initialism of peritoneal dialysis.
- (ophthalmology) Initialism of pupillary distance.
- (pathology) Initialism of personality disorder.
- Initialism of pole dance.
- (chiefly South Korea) Initialism of producer director.
- Initialism of professional development.
- Initialism of process deviation.
- (law) Initialism of public defender.
- Initialism of program director.
- (pathology) Initialism of Parkinson’s disease.
- (pathology) Initialism of panic disorder.
- Initialism of public domain.
- Initialism of penile duplication.
- (electronics) Initialism of phase detector.
- (electronics) Initialism of power delivery.
- (electricity) Initialism of partial discharge.
- (U.S. military) Abbreviation of period (full stop) punctuation mark, used in communication systems without punctuation (e.g., telegrams).
- Initialism of prosecutorial discretion.
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phrase
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- (law enforcement) Initialism of police officer.
- (business) Initialism of purchase order.
- Initialism of playoff.
- Initialism of post office.
- (military) Initialism of petty officer.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of probation officer.
- Initialism of principal officer.
- an independent agency of the federal government responsible for mail delivery (and sometimes telecommunications) between individuals and businesses in the United States
- a noncommissioned officer in the Navy or Coast Guard with a rank comparable to sergeant in the Army
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adv
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- (law enforcement) Initialism of state police.
- (law enforcement) Abbreviation of superintendent.
- (horse racing) Initialism of starting price.
- Initialism of state park.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of substance P.
- Initialism of selling price.
- (Scientology) Initialism of suppressive person.
- (firearms) Initialism of soft point.
- (US, military, navy) Initialism of shore patrol.
- (computing) Initialism of service pack.
- (highways) Abbreviation of spur.
- Initialism of slow play.
- (music industry) Abbreviation of sub-publishing.
- (ice skating) Initialism of short program.
- (Hong Kong) Initialism of sex partner.
- (video games, mostly role-playing games) Initialism of skill point, special point, spirit point, or spell point; synonym of or alternative to MP/magic points, especially for games that lack magic or fantasy elements.
name
noun
- (law enforcement, uk) Initialism of major incident.
- (dentistry) Initialism of mesioincisal.
- Initialism of middle initial.
- (baseball) Initialism of middle infielder.
- (cardiology) Initialism of mitral insufficiency.
- (information theory) Initialism of mutual information.
- (medicine) Initialism of medical inspection.
- (mathematics) Initialism of mathematical induction.
- (military) Initialism of military intelligence.
- (medicine) Initialism of mechanical index.
- (cardiology) Initialism of myocardial infarction.
- destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle
- the government agency in the United Kingdom that is responsible for internal security and counterintelligence on British territory
- the government agency in the United Kingdom that is responsible for internal security and counterintelligence overseas
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name
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- (organic chemistry) Initialism of polyphenylene sulfide.
- (UK politics) Initialism of parliamentary private secretary.
- Initialism of postpericardiotomy syndrome.
- Initialism of post postscriptum: a further footnote to a PS footnote.
- (UK politics) Initialism of principal private secretary.
- Initialism of popliteal pterygium syndrome.
name
noun
- (philosophy) Initialism of principle of alternate possibilities.
- (grammar) Abbreviation of past active participle.
- (medicine) Acronym of positive airway pressure.
- (cosmology, epistemology) Initialism of participatory anthropic principle.
- (organic chemistry) polyfluoroalkyl phosphate ester
- (medicine) Initialism of prostatic acid phosphatase.
- (networking) Initialism of password authentication protocol.
- (by extension) A positive airway pressure machine, a PAP device.
- (grammar) Abbreviation of present active participle.
verb
noun
- (law enforcement) Initialism of incident report.
- (business) Initialism of investor relations.
- (computer science) Initialism of information retrieval.
- (software compilation) Initialism of intermediate representation.
- (disability sport) Initialism of indoor rowing.
- (physics) Initialism of infrared radiation.
- (Ohio, rare) Initialism of interstate route.
- (aviation) Initialism of inertial reference.
- (politics) Initialism of international relations.
- (business) Initialism of industrial relations.
- (sports) Initialism of injured reserve.
- (pharmacology) Initialism of immediate release.
- (physics) Abbreviation of infrared.
- a board of the British government that administers and collects major direct taxes
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name
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- (medicine) Initialism of myofascial pain syndrome.
- (medicine) Abbreviation of mucopolysaccharidosis.
- (aeronautics) Initialism of main propulsion system (of the Space Shuttle).
- (education) Initialism of Master of Professional Studies.
- (business) Initialism of master production schedule.
- Initialism of muscle protein synthesis.
- (chemistry) Abbreviation of methylacetylene propadiene, stabilized stabilized methylacetylene-propadiene mixture.
- a widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow
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name
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- Initialism of Civil Police Officer.
- (automotive, electricity) Initialism of charge point operator.
- Initialism of county prosecutor's office.
- Initialism of chief petty officer.
- Initialism of chief privacy officer.
- Initialism of certified pool operator (of swimming pools).
- (automotive) Initialism of certified pre-owned Referring to a used car asserted to be in good condition whose warranty (from the seller, manufacturer, or insurer) is asserted to be extensive.
- Initialism of chief procurement officer.
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- (law) Initialism of freedom of panorama.
- (medical genetics) Initialism of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva.
- (US, derogatory) Initialism of flyover people: individuals who reside between the two coasts of the US, with the exception of a few major cities.
- (aviation, travel) Initialism of form of payment.
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noun
- Initialism of superabsorbent powder, made of superabsorbent polymer.
- (economics) Initialism of structural adjustment program.
- (US, military) Initialism of special access program.
- (television, acronym, initialism) Abbreviation of second audio program.
- Initialism of superabsorbent polymer.
- (British) Initialism of statutory adoption pay, payments made by an employer to an employee who is absent from work after the adoption of a child.
- (linguistics) Initialism of speech act participant.
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- (aviation) Initialism of multi-purpose display.
- (rail transport, countable) Initialism of motive power depot.
- (aviation, travel industry) Initialism of multi-purpose document.
- (pathology) Initialism of myeloproliferative disease.
- (medicine) Initialism of mammary Paget's disease / mammary Paget disease.
- (physics, engineering, space science, astronautics) Initialism of magnetoplasmadynamics.
verb
- To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.
- To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.
- (transitive, intransitive) To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow.
- To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
- To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
- (nautical) To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind.
- To confront with questions, demands or requests.
- To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.
- cause to be alert and energetic
- support by bracing
- support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace
- prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult
noun
- The state of being braced or tight; tension.
- A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
- (British, chiefly in the plural) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
- A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
- A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
- That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
- (nautical) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
- (soccer) Two goals scored by one player in a game.
- (typography) A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be considered together, such as in {role, roll}; in music, used to connect staves.
- (plural brace) A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally (e.g., a brace of conies) and then other things, but rarely human persons. (In British use (as plural), this is a particularly common reference to game birds.)
- Harness; warlike preparation.
- (plural in North America, singular or plural in the UK) A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or to reduce overbite.
- A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
- (British, Cornwall, mining) The mouth of a shaft.
- (cricket) Two wickets taken with two consecutive deliveries.
- a rope on a square-rigged ship that is used to swing a yard about and secure it
- a structural member used to stiffen a framework
- an appliance that corrects dental irregularities
- a set of two similar things considered as a unit
- a support that steadies or strengthens something else
- elastic straps that hold trousers up
- a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring
- either of two punctuation marks (‘{’ or ‘}’) used to enclose textual material
- two items of the same kind
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- (government) Initialism of Police Record Check.
- (economics) Initialism of Private Commercial Organisation.
- (Singapore, sometimes derogatory) A person from the People's Republic of China, especially in contrast to native-born Singaporean Chinese.
- (education) Initialism of Preschool Referral Committee.
- Initialism of planning review committee.
- (communication) Initialism of personal radio communications, e.g. the PRC-77 portable secure FM radio set.
- Initialism of protocol Review Committee.
name
- Initialism of People's Republic of the Congo, the predecessor state of the Republic of the Congo.
- (Christianity) Initialism of Protestant Reformed Church.
- (Philippines) Initialism of Professional Regulatory Commission, a commission of the Philippine government.
- (computer science) Initialism of Palm Resource Code, the file format for Palm OS applications.
- Initialism of People's Republic of China.
- (British) Initialism of Pesticide Residues Committee.
- (Philippines) Initialism of Philippine Red Cross.
noun
- (law enforcement) Initialism of National Revolutionary Police Force.
- (travel, aviation) Initialism of passenger name record: the complete details of a passenger's booking, including itinerary, contact details, and special requests; or the unique alphanumeric identifier for each booking.
- (aviation, navigation) Initialism of point of no return.
name
name
noun
phrase
noun
- Initialism of police report.
- (business) Initialism of purchase requisition.
- (sports) Initialism of Paralympic record.
- Initialism of Puerto Rican.
- Initialism of public relations.
- (sports) Initialism of personal record.
- (medicine) A PR interval.
- Initialism of personal representative.
- (tennis) Initialism of protected ranking.
- (software engineering) Initialism of pull request.
- (medicine) Initialism of partial response.
- (hematology) Initialism of prothrombin ratio.
- Initialism of proportional representation.
- (electronics) Abbreviation of preset.
- Initialism of permanent residence.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of progesterone receptor.
- Initialism of personal recognizance (bond).
- a promotion intended to create goodwill for a person or institution
adv
name
verb
noun
- (law enforcement) Initialism of police department.
- (sports) Initialism of performance director.
- Initialism of positive deviance.
- (Ireland, politics, historical) Initialism of Progressive Democrat.
- Initialism of peritoneal dialysis.
- (ophthalmology) Initialism of pupillary distance.
- (pathology) Initialism of personality disorder.
- Initialism of pole dance.
- (chiefly South Korea) Initialism of producer director.
- Initialism of professional development.
- Initialism of process deviation.
- (law) Initialism of public defender.
- Initialism of program director.
- (pathology) Initialism of Parkinson’s disease.
- (pathology) Initialism of panic disorder.
- Initialism of public domain.
- Initialism of penile duplication.
- (electronics) Initialism of phase detector.
- (electronics) Initialism of power delivery.
- (electricity) Initialism of partial discharge.
- (U.S. military) Abbreviation of period (full stop) punctuation mark, used in communication systems without punctuation (e.g., telegrams).
- Initialism of prosecutorial discretion.
name
phrase
noun
- (law enforcement) Initialism of police officer.
- (business) Initialism of purchase order.
- Initialism of playoff.
- Initialism of post office.
- (military) Initialism of petty officer.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of probation officer.
- Initialism of principal officer.
- an independent agency of the federal government responsible for mail delivery (and sometimes telecommunications) between individuals and businesses in the United States
- a noncommissioned officer in the Navy or Coast Guard with a rank comparable to sergeant in the Army
adj
adv
noun
- (law enforcement) Initialism of state police.
- (law enforcement) Abbreviation of superintendent.
- (horse racing) Initialism of starting price.
- Initialism of state park.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of substance P.
- Initialism of selling price.
- (Scientology) Initialism of suppressive person.
- (firearms) Initialism of soft point.
- (US, military, navy) Initialism of shore patrol.
- (computing) Initialism of service pack.
- (highways) Abbreviation of spur.
- Initialism of slow play.
- (music industry) Abbreviation of sub-publishing.
- (ice skating) Initialism of short program.
- (Hong Kong) Initialism of sex partner.
- (video games, mostly role-playing games) Initialism of skill point, special point, spirit point, or spell point; synonym of or alternative to MP/magic points, especially for games that lack magic or fantasy elements.
name
noun
- (law enforcement, uk) Initialism of major incident.
- (dentistry) Initialism of mesioincisal.
- Initialism of middle initial.
- (baseball) Initialism of middle infielder.
- (cardiology) Initialism of mitral insufficiency.
- (information theory) Initialism of mutual information.
- (medicine) Initialism of medical inspection.
- (mathematics) Initialism of mathematical induction.
- (military) Initialism of military intelligence.
- (medicine) Initialism of mechanical index.
- (cardiology) Initialism of myocardial infarction.
- destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle
- the government agency in the United Kingdom that is responsible for internal security and counterintelligence on British territory
- the government agency in the United Kingdom that is responsible for internal security and counterintelligence overseas
name
noun
- (law enforcement) Initialism of incident report.
- (business) Initialism of investor relations.
- (computer science) Initialism of information retrieval.
- (software compilation) Initialism of intermediate representation.
- (disability sport) Initialism of indoor rowing.
- (physics) Initialism of infrared radiation.
- (Ohio, rare) Initialism of interstate route.
- (aviation) Initialism of inertial reference.
- (politics) Initialism of international relations.
- (business) Initialism of industrial relations.
- (sports) Initialism of injured reserve.
- (pharmacology) Initialism of immediate release.
- (physics) Abbreviation of infrared.
- a board of the British government that administers and collects major direct taxes
adj
noun
name
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adj
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- Initialism of Civil Police Officer.
- (automotive, electricity) Initialism of charge point operator.
- Initialism of county prosecutor's office.
- Initialism of chief petty officer.
- Initialism of chief privacy officer.
- Initialism of certified pool operator (of swimming pools).
- (automotive) Initialism of certified pre-owned Referring to a used car asserted to be in good condition whose warranty (from the seller, manufacturer, or insurer) is asserted to be extensive.
- Initialism of chief procurement officer.
noun
- (government) Initialism of Police Record Check.
- (economics) Initialism of Private Commercial Organisation.
- (Singapore, sometimes derogatory) A person from the People's Republic of China, especially in contrast to native-born Singaporean Chinese.
- (education) Initialism of Preschool Referral Committee.
- Initialism of planning review committee.
- (communication) Initialism of personal radio communications, e.g. the PRC-77 portable secure FM radio set.
- Initialism of protocol Review Committee.
name
- Initialism of People's Republic of the Congo, the predecessor state of the Republic of the Congo.
- (Christianity) Initialism of Protestant Reformed Church.
- (Philippines) Initialism of Professional Regulatory Commission, a commission of the Philippine government.
- (computer science) Initialism of Palm Resource Code, the file format for Palm OS applications.
- Initialism of People's Republic of China.
- (British) Initialism of Pesticide Residues Committee.
- (Philippines) Initialism of Philippine Red Cross.
noun
- (law enforcement) Initialism of National Revolutionary Police Force.
- (travel, aviation) Initialism of passenger name record: the complete details of a passenger's booking, including itinerary, contact details, and special requests; or the unique alphanumeric identifier for each booking.
- (aviation, navigation) Initialism of point of no return.
name
verb
- To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.
- To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.
- (transitive, intransitive) To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow.
- To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
- To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
- (nautical) To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind.
- To confront with questions, demands or requests.
- To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.
- cause to be alert and energetic
- support by bracing
- support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace
- prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult
noun
- The state of being braced or tight; tension.
- A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
- (British, chiefly in the plural) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
- A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
- A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
- That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
- (nautical) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
- (soccer) Two goals scored by one player in a game.
- (typography) A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be considered together, such as in {role, roll}; in music, used to connect staves.
- (plural brace) A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally (e.g., a brace of conies) and then other things, but rarely human persons. (In British use (as plural), this is a particularly common reference to game birds.)
- Harness; warlike preparation.
- (plural in North America, singular or plural in the UK) A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or to reduce overbite.
- A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
- (British, Cornwall, mining) The mouth of a shaft.
- (cricket) Two wickets taken with two consecutive deliveries.
- a rope on a square-rigged ship that is used to swing a yard about and secure it
- a structural member used to stiffen a framework
- an appliance that corrects dental irregularities
- a set of two similar things considered as a unit
- a support that steadies or strengthens something else
- elastic straps that hold trousers up
- a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring
- either of two punctuation marks (‘{’ or ‘}’) used to enclose textual material
- two items of the same kind