provost marshal

1. 1.

   the supervisor of the military police

   Broadermilitary policeman

   military

Questions about provost marshal

What does provost marshal mean?

provost marshal means "the supervisor of the military police".

Is provost marshal a common word?

provost marshal 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.