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| pos·se [ póssee ] (plural pos·ses) |
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1. sheriff's helpers: especially in the western United States in the 19th-century, a group of citizens assembled by a sheriff to assist in maintaining law and order
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2. assembled group: a group of people assembled for a common purpose
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informal
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3. U.S. searchers: a search party
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| [Mid-17th century. Shortening of posse comitatus< medieval Latin, "force of the county"] |
