POLICE WORK
Dictionary entry overview: What does police work mean? • POLICE WORK (noun)
The noun POLICE WORK has 1 sense:
1. the investigation of criminal activities
Familiarity information: POLICE WORK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• POLICE WORK (noun)
Meaning:
The investigation of criminal activities
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
police investigation; police work
Hypernyms ("police work" is a kind of...):
investigating; investigation (the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "police work"):
detecting; detection; detective work; sleuthing (a police investigation to determine the perpetrator)
roundup (the systematic gathering up of suspects by the police)
surveillance (close observation of a person or group (usually by the police))
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