policeable
English
Etymology
police + -able
Adjective
policeable (comparative more policeable, superlative most policeable)
- That can be policed.
- 1990, Sophie Watson, Playing the state: Australian feminist interventions (page 33)
- This kind of theory would suggest that 'the state' is actually the hostage of popular agency, that it can afford to criminalize only that which is policeable; and that only unpopular illegalities are policeable.
- 1990, Sophie Watson, Playing the state: Australian feminist interventions (page 33)