law officer

Questions about law officer

What does law officer mean?

law officer means "an officer of the law".

What is another word for law officer?

Close synonyms include lawman, peace officer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is law officer a common word?

law officer 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.