Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

underpolice en · VERB

Etymology

From under- + police.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To police too little.
    • They don’t differ in terms of arrests for violent crime and property crime. However, we find that Black officers make less arrests related to drug offenses. There is this underpolicing argument that you’re making for drug offenses. 2020 June 12, Kate Waldock and Luigi Zingales, “Should we defund the police?”, in Capitalisn't:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
underpolicing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
underpoliced Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
underpoliced Tense=Past lexicographic
underpolices Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Antonyms

overpolice