WANTED POSTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wanted poster mean? 

• WANTED POSTER (noun)
  The noun WANTED POSTER has 1 sense:

1. a public announcement by a law enforcement agency that they desire to question or arrest some person

  Familiarity information: WANTED POSTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WANTED POSTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A public announcement by a law enforcement agency that they desire to question or arrest some person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

wanted notice; wanted poster

Hypernyms ("wanted poster" is a kind of...):

announcement; promulgation (a public statement containing information about an event that has happened or is going to happen)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wanted poster"):

International Wanted Notice; Red Notice (an Interpol notice describing a wanted person and asking that he or she be arrested with a view to extradition; a wanted notice that is issued by Interpol at the request of an Interpol member country and distributed to all member countries)