'Posse' definitions:
Definition of 'posse'
From: WordNet
noun
A temporary police force [syn: posse, posse comitatus]
Definition of 'Posse'
From: GCIDE
- Posse \Pos"se\, n. See Posse comitatus. [1913 Webster]
- In posse. See In posse in the Vocabulary. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'posse'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- age group,
- army,
- army group,
- band,
- battalion,
- battery,
- battle group,
- bevy,
- body,
- brigade,
- bunch,
- cabal,
- cadre,
- cast,
- Cheka,
- clique,
- cohort,
- column,
- combat command,
- combat team,
- company,
- complement,
- constabulary,
- contingent,
- corps,
- coterie,
- county police,
- covey,
- crew,
- crowd,
- detachment,
- detail,
- division,
- domiciliary visit,
- dragnet,
- exploration,
- faction,
- FBI,
- field army,
- field train,
- file,
- fleet,
- flying column,
- forage,
- frisk,
- gang,
- garrison,
- Gestapo,
- group,
- grouping,
- groupment,
- highway patrol,
- house-search,
- hunt,
- hunting,
- in-group,
- Interpol,
- junta,
- kitchen police,
- KP,
- law enforcement agency,
- legion,
- maniple,
- military police,
- mob,
- Mounties,
- movement,
- MP,
- MVD,
- NKVD,
- OGPU,
- organization,
- out-group,
- outfit,
- pack,
- party,
- peer group,
- perquisition,
- phalanx,
- platoon,
- police,
- police force,
- political police,
- probe,
- provincial police,
- quest,
- rank,
- ransacking,
- RCMP,
- regiment,
- riot police,
- rummage,
- salon,
- Scotland Yard,
- search,
- search party,
- search warrant,
- search-and-destroy operation,
- searching,
- secret police,
- section,
- security force,
- set,
- shore patrol,
- SP,
- special police,
- squad,
- squadron,
- stable,
- stalk,
- stalking,
- state police,
- still hunt,
- string,
- tactical police,
- tactical unit,
- task force,
- team,
- train,
- tribe,
- troop,
- troopers,
- troupe,
- turning over,
- unit,
- vigilance committee,
- vigilantes,
- wing