policeable

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

police +‎ -able

Adjective[edit]

policeable (comparative more policeable, superlative most policeable)

  1. That can be policed.
    • 1990, Sophie Watson, Playing the state: Australian feminist interventions, page 33:
      This kind of theory would suggest that 'the state' is actually the hostage of popular agency, that it can afford to criminalize only that which is policeable; and that only unpopular illegalities are policeable.