SECURITY FORCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does security force mean? 

• SECURITY FORCE (noun)
  The noun SECURITY FORCE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SECURITY FORCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SECURITY FORCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

private security force; security force

Hypernyms ("security force" is a kind of...):

force; personnel (group of people willing to obey orders)

Meronyms (members of "security force"):

security guard; watcher; watchman (a guard who keeps watch)