state police

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

state police (usually uncountable, plural state polices)

Officers of the California Highway Patrol. The California Highway Patrol is the largest state police (sense 1) agency by manpower in the United States.

1. (US, Australia, law enforcement) The police force belonging to the state (subnational) government, as contrasted with federal, county, or municipal law enforcement.
2. Outside the USA or Australia, the national police, i.e. the police force belonging to the national (state) government.

Synonyms

• (USA) smokies, state troopers, state patrol
• (outside of USA or Australia) national police

Hypernyms

• Johnny Law (slang)
• law enforcement
• police
• the law

Translations

police force belonging to the state government

• German: (US) Staatspolizei (de) f, (German equivalent) Landespolizei (de) f

See also

• secret police

Anagrams

• police state