posse comitatus

1. 1.

   a temporary police force

   Synonymsposse

   Broaderpolice

Questions about posse comitatus

What does posse comitatus mean?

posse comitatus means "a temporary police force".

What is another word for posse comitatus?

Close synonyms include posse. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is posse comitatus a common word?

posse comitatus 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.