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POLICE WORK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The investigation of criminal activities
Synonyms:
police investigation; police work
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("police work" is a kind of...):
investigating; investigation (the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "police work"):
detecting; detection; detective work; sleuthing (a police investigation to determine the perpetrator)
forensics (scientific tests or techniques used in the investigation of crimes)
roundup (the systematic gathering up of suspects by the police)
surveillance (close observation of a person or group (usually by the police))
