police lieutenant

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   an officer in a police force

   Synonymslieutenant

   Broaderlawman

Questions about police lieutenant

What does police lieutenant mean?

police lieutenant means "an officer in a police force".

What is another word for police lieutenant?

Close synonyms include lieutenant. 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 lieutenant a common word?

police lieutenant 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.