constabularynoun [ C, + sing/pl verb ]
uk/kənˈstæb.jə.lə.ri/us/kənˈstæb.je.ler.i/the British police force for a particular area
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
The police generally
- baton
- baton charge
- billy club
- booze bus
- CID
- cop shop
- escort
- fuzz
- patrol car
- plain clothes
- police
- police department
- police force
- police state
- the long arm of the law idiom
- the Metropolitan Police
- the RCMP
- the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- traffic cops
- warrant
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Examples from literature
- Dublin swarms with soldiers, constabulary and police.
- I inquired if he thought the Irish constabulary a loyal body.
- I'll see you tomorrow, after I stop at the constabulary post.
- Members of the constabulary were always considerate and accommodating towards him during his periodic outbursts of alcoholic craving.
- Proprietors, agents, and large farmers required "protection" from the constabulary, and there was no longer anything to attract capital to the neighbourhood in the face of a deterrent population.
- The metropolitan police is quite distinct from the constabulary, and under a different chief.