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Noun(1) French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively

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(1) We think this kid will indeed be serving his country in uniform, but it won't be the natty blue of the gendarmerie .(2) However, in areas under a state of emergency or martial law, the gendarmerie functions under the military.(3) It was a calculated response to the fears of an oppressive gendarmerie which had motivated so much resistance to the force.(4) In times of national crisis the gendarmerie can be used to reinforce the army.(5) The operation was carried out by the gendarmerie , which is equipped by the army.(6) When the referee sent both players off they promptly had a brawl in the tunnel, which required the intervention of the local gendarmerie .(7) Napoleon brought opposition to conscription under control, instituting the gendarmerie and mobile columns of soldiers to track down draft-dodgers and deserters in the countryside.(8) They have become more like the French gendarmerie - a pseudo-paramilitary force that lives a barrack-style existence, sealed off from the public and rarely interacting with those it is supposed to serve.(9) The state also increased the budget for the military, police and gendarmerie at that time.(10) We need to bring in the international community, like international police, gendarmerie , carabinieri, to help us.(11) The Interior Ministry will now control both the police and the gendarmerie .(12) The gendarmerie , police, and army eliminated many brigand bands.(13) A national police force oversees urban areas, and a gendarmerie attends to rural peacekeeping.(14) The legal and judicial systems of Martinique are those of France, as are the police force and gendarmerie .(15) Criminals are usually delivered to the police or the gendarmerie , a military police with a reputation of an uncorrupted elite force.(16) Having a short, light, accurate little carbine chambered for the same cartridge and possibly using the same magazine as your service pistol must have been comforting to the local gendarmerie .