public security

1. 1.

   the general security of public places

   “he was arrested for disturbing the peace”

   Synonymspeace

   Broadersecurity

Questions about public security

What does public security mean?

public security means "the general security of public places".

What is another word for public security?

Close synonyms include peace. 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 public security a common word?

public security 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.