police department
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++poˈlice deˌpartment noun [countable] American English SCPthe official police organization in a particular area or city 〔某地区或城市的〕警察局，警察部门
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police department• In 1994, New Orleans hired a new police chief to rescue the corrupt, ineffective police department from itself.• The Boca Raton police department gave him the name and phone number of a bank officer who could be reached in emergencies.• I would guarantee him an exclusive, pictures and all, which is something he'd never get from the police department.• There were some cases, nevertheless, of clear discrimination: age discrimination in the police department, for example.• When anything like this happened, every office-holder in the community made speeches passing the buck on to the police department.• But the whole police department is in on it.poˈlice deˌpartment nounChineseSyllable
police Corpus the particular organization in a or official area
police department
poˈlice deˌpartment
noun [countable] American English
the official police organization in a particular area or city
poˈlice deˌpartment
noun [countable] American Englishthe official police organization in a particular area or city