police up

English

Verb

police up (third-person singular simple present polices up, present participle policing up, simple past and past participle policed up)

  1. (transitive) To clean up an area or an item or person, usually in preparation for an inspection; to police an area for problems.
    We have to police up the grounds before the end of the day.
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