police action

1. 1.

   a local military action without declaration of war; against violators of international peace and order

   Broadermilitary action

   military

Questions about police action

What does police action mean?

police action means "a local military action without declaration of war; against violators of international peace and order".

Is police action a common word?

police action is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.