military policeman

1. 1.

   a member of the military police who polices soldiers and guards prisoners

   SynonymsMP

   Broaderlawman

   Narrowerprovost marshalredcap

   Part ofmilitary police

   military

Questions about military policeman

What does military policeman mean?

military policeman means "a member of the military police who polices soldiers and guards prisoners".

What is another word for military policeman?

Close synonyms include MP. 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 military policeman a common word?

military policeman 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.