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Posse

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A group of people summoned by a sheriff to aid in law enforcement.

n. A search party.

n. A gang involved in crimes such as running guns and illegal narcotics trafficking.

n. Slang A group of friends or associates.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A group of people summoned to help law enforcement

n. A search party

n. A criminal gang

n. A group of associates

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. See posse comitatus.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Possibility.

n. A sheriff's posse comitatus (see below); in general, a body or squad of men.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a temporary police force

Word Usage

"_a posse ad esse non valet consequentia_, you can draw no inference from the possibility of a thing to its reality, but that, in the reverse order, _ab esse ad posse_, the inference is inevitable: if it is, or if it ever has been -- then of necessity it can be."

Verb Form

possed possing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

law constabulary police police force

Cross Reference

posse comitatus

Variant

posse comitatus

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

force

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Abbasi Anastasi Fossey abbasi anastasi quasi

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

percipi nihil quicquam possit quidem neque verum mihi modo etiam