chief constable

1. 1.

   the head of the police force in a county (or similar area)

   Broadercaptain

   United Kingdom

Questions about chief constable

What does chief constable mean?

chief constable means "the head of the police force in a county (or similar area)".

Is chief constable a common word?

chief constable is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.