SECRET POLICE

Meaning of SECRET POLICE in English

ˌsecret poˈlice BrE AmE noun

the secret police a police force controlled by a government, that secretly tries to defeat the political enemies of that government

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. Longman - Словарь современного английского языка. 2012

SECRET POLICE — noun Date: 1823 a police organization operating for the most part in secrecy and especially for the political purposes of …
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SECRET POLICE — noun : a police organization operating for the most part in secrecy and especially for the political purposes of its …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SECRET POLICE — a police force that functions as the enforcement arm of a government's political policies and whose activities, which often include …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SECRET POLICE — detective unit, undercover unit
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SECRET POLICE — Date: 1823 : a police organization operating for the most part in secrecy and especially for the political purposes of …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SECRET POLICE — Function: noun Date: 1823 : a police organization operating for the most part in secrecy and especially for the political …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
SECRET POLICE — ■ noun [treated as plural ] a police force working in secret against a government's political opponents.
Concise Oxford English vocab
SECRET POLICE — [secret police] n (1823): a police organization operating for the most part in secrecy and esp. for the political purposes …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SECRET POLICE — noun [ sing.+ sing./pl. v . ] a police force that works secretly to make sure that citizens behave as …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SECRET POLICE — The secret police is a police force in some countries that works secretly and deals with political crimes committed against …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SECRET POLICE — The ~ is a police force in some countries that works secretly and deals with political crimes committed against the …
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SECRET POLICE — noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And that would get us back to castor oil and the secret police . ▪ …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SECRET POLICE
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
SECRET POLICE — Synonyms and related words : Cheka, FBI, Gestapo, Interpol, MP, MVD, Mounties, NKVD, OGPU, RCMP, SP, Scotland Yard, bugging, cloak-and-dagger …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
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POLICE — I Body of agents organized to maintain civil order and public safety, enforce the law, and investigate crime. Characteristics common …
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Webster's New International English Dictionary
POLICE — I. pəˈlēs, pōˈ-, in rapid speech ˈplēs noun ( plural police ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle French, conduct of …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SECRET — — secretly , adv. — secretness , n. /see"krit/ , adj. 1. done, made, or conducted without the knowledge of …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
POLICE — /peuh lees"/ , n. , v. , policed, policing . n. 1. Also called police force . an organized civil …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SECRET — I. ˈsē-krət adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French secré, secret, from Latin secretus, from past participle of secernere to separate, …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
POLICE — I. pə-ˈlēs transitive verb ( po·liced ; po·lic·ing ) Etymology: in sense 1, from Middle French policier, from police conduct …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SECRET — vt to keep secret. 2. secret ·adj separate; distinct. 3. secret ·adj a thing not discovered; what is unknown or …
Webster English vocab
POLICE — vt to keep in order by police. 2. police ·vt to make clean; as, to police a camp. 3. police …
Webster English vocab
SECRET — [se.cret] adj [ME, fr. MF, fr. L secretus, fr. pp. of secernere to separate, distinguish, fr. se- apart + cernere …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
POLICE — [po.lice] vt po.liced ; po.lic.ing (1589) [in sense 1, fr. MF policier, fr. police conduct of public affairs; in other …
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Britannica English vocabulary
SECRET — secret BrE AmE ˈsiːk rət -rɪt ▷ secret|s s ▶ ˌ secret ˈ agent BrE AmE ▶ ˌ secret po …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
SECRET — / ˈsiːkrət; NAmE / adjective , noun ■ adjective 1. secret (from sb) known about by only a few people; …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
POLICE — / pəˈliːs; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun (often the police ) [ pl. ] an official organization whose …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SECRET — I. se ‧ cret 1 S3 W2 /ˈsiːkrət, ˈsiːkrɪt/ BrE AmE adjective [ Word Family: noun : ↑ secrecy , …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
POLICE — I. po ‧ lice 1 S1 W1 /pəˈliːs/ BrE AmE noun [plural] [ Date: 1400-1500 ; Language: French ; Origin: …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SECRET — adj. & n. --adj. 1 kept or meant to be kept private, unknown, or hidden from all or all but …
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POLICE — n. & v. --n. 1 (usu. prec. by the) the civil force of a State, responsible for maintaining public order. …
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SECRET — adj. & n. adj. 1 kept or meant to be kept private, unknown, or hidden from all or all but …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
POLICE — n. & v. n. 1 (usu. prec. by the) the civil force of a State, responsible for maintaining public order. …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SECRET — adj. & n. --adj. 1. kept or meant to be kept private, unknown, or hidden from all or all but …
Oxford English vocab
POLICE — n. & v. --n. 1. (usu. prec. by the) the civil force of a State, responsible for maintaining public order. …
Oxford English vocab
SECRET — ( secrets) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. If something is secret …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
POLICE — ( polices, policing, policed) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. The police …
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
POLICE — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a police car ▪ The vehicle was being chased by a police car. a …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SECRET — [adjective]The President escaped through a secret passage underneath the parliament building.When they are released, the hostages will be taken to …
Cambridge English vocab
POLICE — n. International Criminal Police Organization Boston Police Strike police power Royal Canadian Mounted Police secret police
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
POLICE — n. Body of agents organized to maintain civil order and public safety, enforce the law, and investigate crime. Characteristics common …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
SECRET — Synonyms and related words : abstract, abstruse, arcane, arcanum, beclouded, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, blind, buried, by stealth, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
POLICE — Synonyms and related words : Cheka, FBI, Gestapo, Interpol, MP, MVD, Mounties, NKVD, OGPU, RCMP, SP, Scotland Yard, administer, arm, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SECRET — I. noun 1 sth that must not be known by others ADJECTIVE ▪ big , great ▪ little ▪ closely …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
POLICE — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ armed , mounted ▪ plain-clothes , uniformed ▪ undercover ▪ riot , traffic ▪ military , paramilitary …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
SECRET — See ↑ PRIVATE 1, ↑ SECRET 1,2,3,6, ↑ WAY 4 ◆◆◆ • ↑ be an open secret • ↑ be …
Longman Activator English vocab
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Longman Activator English vocab
SECRET — n. 25B6; adjective a secret plan : CONFIDENTIAL, top secret, classified, undisclosed, unknown, private, under wraps; informal hush-hush; formal sub …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
POLICE — n. 25B6; noun the police force, police officers, policemen, policewomen, officers of the law, the forces of law and order; …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
SECRET — adj. 1 concealed, hidden, private, covert, shrouded, clandestine; confidential, covert, quiet, under cover, secretive, unpublishable, unpublished, Colloq hush-hush There is …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
POLICE — n. 1 constabulary, policemen, policewomen, police officers, Colloq boys in blue, the (long arm of the) law, the cops, the …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
POLICE — noun 1 BAD : The police was not able to find anything. GOOD : The police were not able to …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary
SECRET — 1. сущ. 1) секрет, тайна; загадка, необъяснимое to be in the secret ≈ быть посвященным в тайну to betray, blurt …
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