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POLICE WORK
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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
Sense 1
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)
forensics (scientific tests or techniques used in the investigation of crimes)
roundup (the systematic gathering up of suspects by the police)
surveillance (close observation of a person or group (usually by the police))
Context examples
“Our police work ends, but our legal work begins.”
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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