police force

Questions about police force

What does police force mean?

police force means "the force of policemen and officers".

What is another word for police force?

Close synonyms include police, constabulary, law. 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 force a common word?

police force 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.