What does police captain mean?

police captain means "a policeman in charge of a precinct".

What is another word for police captain?

Close synonyms include captain, police chief. 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 police captain a common word?

police captain 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.

police captain — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
a policeman in charge of a precinct
Synonymscaptain police chief
Broaderpoliceman
NarrowerChief Constable Beria

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