POLICE DEPARTMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does police department mean? 

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

1. the department of local government concerned with enforcing the law and preventing crime

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLICE DEPARTMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The department of local government concerned with enforcing the law and preventing crime

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

department of local government; local department (a permanent department created to perform the work of a local government)