See policeable on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "police",
"3": "able"
},
"expansion": "police + -able",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From police + -able.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more policeable",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most policeable",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "policeable (comparative more policeable, superlative most policeable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -able",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "unpoliceable"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1990, Sophie Watson, Playing the state: Australian feminist interventions, page 33:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"That can be policed."
],
"id": "en-policeable-en-adj-adiQD0PR",
"links": [
[
"police",
"police"
]
]
}
],
"word": "policeable"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "unpoliceable"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "police",
"3": "able"
},
"expansion": "police + -able",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From police + -able.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more policeable",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most policeable",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "policeable (comparative more policeable, superlative most policeable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms suffixed with -able",
"English terms with quotations",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1990, Sophie Watson, Playing the state: Australian feminist interventions, page 33:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"That can be policed."
],
"links": [
[
"police",
"police"
]
]
}
],
"word": "policeable"
}
Download raw JSONL data for policeable meaning in All languages combined (1.2kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-17 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (ca09fec and c40eb85). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.