POLICE OFFICER Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

police officer

noun

Definition of police officer

as in policeman

a member of a force charged with law enforcement at the local level there were police officers directing traffic around the scene of the accident

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Recent Examples of police officer Karen Solomon, a Massachusetts mental health advocate for law enforcement who was being sought in connection with the death of her police officer husband, appears to have been found dead Monday, ending a multiday search. — Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 24 Aug. 2026 Retired police officer and firefighter Ted Melden has seen his share of Mother Nature’s fury since moving to Reno with his wife earlier this month from Chapin, South Carolina. — ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026 Naugatuck police officers said that members of the Naugatuck Board of Education contacted them in early June about concerns involving a 15-year-old minor and Harte. — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 23 Aug. 2026 Miami’s city manager said in June that there were just two Miami police officers trained under the 287(g) program. — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for police officer

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Noun

Thaksin Shinawatra, the larger-than-life former policeman and telecom billionaire, built up enormous power as prime minister in the early 2000s, incurring the disdain of royalists.

— Duncan McCargo, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2026
You’ll be attacked in the street for that, the policeman appeared to be telling him.

— Ledio Cakaj, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of policeman

Noun

The department said officers found a male victim and started life-saving measures until Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue arrived.

— Matthew Ablon, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2026
The guillotine was in the bed of a pickup truck spotted near the Capitol and the Supreme Court, where, officers said, it was illegally parked.

— Ashley Mowreader, NBC news, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of officer

Noun

After testing what appears to be a faulty metal detector at the football field, the pigheaded space cop crashes Rushville’s town-hall meeting and is under the impression that its leader, Sheriff Kerry Kane, is talking about him.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2026
But, practically speaking, none of it is imaginable or executable without digital technologies that are fundamentally black-boxed, inscrutable to individual cops on the beat and institutional decision-makers alike.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of cop

Noun

Jenna Ziviani, a constable at the police station, helped deliver Lyla while receiving guidance from an ambulance officer on the phone.

— Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 14 Aug. 2026
Thompson alerted a town administrator and special constable named Sherise Fountain, who went to investigate.

— Zander Sherman, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2026

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