police officer

1. 1.

   a member of a police force

   “it was an accident, officer”

   Synonymspolicemanofficer

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   Part ofpolice

Questions about police officer

What does police officer mean?

police officer means "a member of a police force".

What is another word for police officer?

Close synonyms include policeman, 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 police officer a common word?

police 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.