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CHIEF CONSTABLE

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Overview

CHIEF CONSTABLE (noun)
  The noun CHIEF CONSTABLE has 1 sense:

1. the head of the police force in a county (or similar area)play

  Familiarity information: CHIEF CONSTABLE used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


CHIEF CONSTABLE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The head of the police force in a county (or similar area)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Chief Constable" is a kind of...):

captain; police captain; police chief (a policeman in charge of a precinct)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)


 Context examples 


A little later the chief constable sent for me.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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