private security force

1. 1.

   a privately employed group hired to protect the security of a business or industry

   Synonymssecurity force

   Broaderforce

Questions about private security force

What does private security force mean?

private security force means "a privately employed group hired to protect the security of a business or industry".

What is another word for private security force?

Close synonyms include security force. 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 private security force a common word?

private security 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.