security force

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsprivate security force

   Broaderforce

Questions about security force

What does security force mean?

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

What is another word for security force?

Close synonyms include private 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 security force a common word?

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.