What does police work mean?

police work means "the investigation of criminal activities".

What is another word for police work?

Close synonyms include police investigation. 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 work a common word?

police work 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 work — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

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

1.
the investigation of criminal activities
Synonymspolice investigation
Broaderinvestigation
Narrowerdetection forensics roundup surveillance

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