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MILITARY POLICE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A military corps that enforces discipline and guards prisoners
Synonyms:
military police; MP
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("military police" is a kind of...):
force; personnel (group of people willing to obey orders)
Meronyms (members of "military police"):
military policeman; MP (a member of the military police who polices soldiers and guards prisoners)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "military police"):
shore patrol (the military police of the navy)
