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POLICE DEPARTMENT
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The department of local government concerned with enforcing the law and preventing crime
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("police department" is a kind of...):
department of local government; local department (a permanent department created to perform the work of a local government)