mounted police en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈmaʊntɪd pəˈliːs/
Meanings
- (uncountable) A unit of the civil police who are specifically trained to serve duty on horseback. Their duties can be ceremonial, or often for crowd control, and to police areas of difficult access or wilderness areas.
Deriveds
Mountie · Mounties · North-West Canadian Mounted Police · mountie · Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Translations (7)
de berittene Polizei (unit of the civil police) · fi ratsupoliisi (unit of the civil police) · cs jízdní policie (unit of the civil police) · pl policja konna (unit of the civil police) · fr police montée (unit of the civil police) · ru ко́нная поли́ция (unit of the civil police) · de Reiterstaffel (unit of the civil police)