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police action definition

police action

military activity without a declaration of war, undertaken to correct a breach of international law within or by a country

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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