Terminology record for water police
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| Record No.: | 118/en/213 |
| Author: | ELAD D. F. |
| Creation date: | |
| Last updated: | 2024-02-22 00:00:00 |
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| TERM | * Water Police status: recommended
* Navigation police (noun) status: accepted * port police (noun) status: accepted * nautical police (noun) status: accepted | |||||||||
| PART OF SPEECH | noun | |||||||||
| PLURAL | Water Police ; Nautical police ; | |||||||||
| ETYMOLOGY | "Water police", also known as "nautical police", "navigation police" are synonyms that originated before the 19th century. "Water police" came from water + police. The term freshwater got into standard English usage around the early 19th century. Earliest publications we could find were published around the 1800s. Some of which include:
"Navigation Police" came from navigation + police. "Nautical Police" came from Nautical + police. Both terms got into standard English usage around the early 19th century. Earliest publications we could find were published around the 1800s. Some of which include:
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| DEFINITION |
police officers, usually a department of a larger police organization, under the authority of the State, responsible for the control and protection of water resources by monitoring and controlling water quality to prevent pollution, and ensure the application of laws concerning water resources. They do so by patrolling coastal seawaters, rivers, estuaries, harbors, lakes, canals or a combination of these, in watercrafts. | |||||||||
| DEFINITION SOURCE |
Wikipedia | |||||||||
