policeable
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]policeable (comparative more policeable, superlative most policeable)
- 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.