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self-policing

Self policing is a process where individuals or groups provide their own discipline and enforce it without outside help.

(noun)

An example of self policing is a community group where everyone leaves items that they want to trade or sell in a designated area and no one steals those items.

See self-policing in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a process or procedure by which an industry, profession, or other cooperating group checks its own members to be sure they conform to established principles or agreements

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