| 单词 | secret police |
| 释义 | secret policeSEE SYNONYMS FOR secret police ON THESAURUS.COM nouna police force that functions as the enforcement arm of a government's political policies and whose activities, which often include surveillance, intimidation, and physical violence as a means of suppressing dissent, are usually concealed from the public. Also called security police. Origin of secret policeFirst recorded in 1920–25 Words nearby secret policesecretory carcinoma, secretory duct, secretory nerve, secretory otitis media, secret partner, secret police, secret Santa, secret sauce, secret service, secret society, secs. Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for secret police
British Dictionary definitions for secret policesecret police nouna police force that operates relatively secretly to check subversion or political dissent Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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