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POLICE CHIEF

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Dictionary entry overview: What does police chief mean?

• POLICE CHIEF (noun)
The noun POLICE CHIEF has 1 sense:

1. a policeman in charge of a precinct

Familiarity information: POLICE CHIEF used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• POLICE CHIEF (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A policeman in charge of a precinct

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

police captain; police chief; captain

Hypernyms ("police chief" is a kind of...):

officer; police officer; policeman (a member of a police force)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "police chief"):

Chief Constable (the head of the police force in a county (or similar area))

Instance hyponyms:

Beria; Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria (Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin; was executed by his associates in the power struggle following Stalin's death (1899-1953))

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