MILITARY POLICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does military police mean? 

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

1. a military corps that enforces discipline and guards prisoners

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILITARY POLICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A military corps that enforces discipline and guards prisoners

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

military police; MP

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

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

Meronyms (members of "military police"):

military policeman; MP (a member of the military police who polices soldiers and guards prisoners)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "military police"):

shore patrol (the military police of the navy)