secret ballot | a vote in which each person's choice is secret but the totaled votes are public |
cryptography coding secret writing steganography | act of writing in code or cipher |
police work police investigation | the investigation of criminal activities |
police action | a local military action without declaration of war, against violators of international peace and order |
German shepherd German shepherd dog German police dog alsatian | breed of large shepherd dogs used in police work and as a guide for the blind |
police dog | any dog trained to assist police especially in tracking |
cruiser police cruiser patrol car police car prowl car squad car | a car in which policemen cruise the streets, equipped with radiotelephonic communications to headquarters |
police boat | a boat used by harbor police |
police station police headquarters station house | a station that serves as headquarters for police in a particular district, serves as a place from which policemen are dispatched and to which arrested persons are brought |
police van police wagon paddy wagon patrol wagon wagon black Maria | van used by police to transport prisoners |
mystery enigma secret closed book | something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained, how it got out is a mystery, it remains one of nature's secrets |
plot secret plan game | a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal), they concocted a plot to discredit the governor, I saw through his little game from the start |
cryptogram cryptograph secret writing | a piece of writing in code or cipher |
cipher cypher cryptograph secret code | a secret method of writing |
blotter day book police blotter rap sheet charge sheet | the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station |
secret arcanum | information known only to a special group, the secret of Cajun cooking |
secret | something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on), the combination to the safe was a secret, he tried to keep his drinking a secret |
open secret | something that is supposed to be secret but is generally known, their love affair was an open secret |
trade secret | a secret (method or device or formula) that gives a manufacturer an advantage over the competition |
connivance secret approval tacit consent | (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing |
Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia ASALA Orly Group rd October Organization | a militant Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization formed in to force Turkey to acknowledge killing more than a million Armenians and forcibly removing them from border areas in , wants Turkey to pay reparations and cede territory to Armenia, ASALA bombing at Orly Airport in Paris in killed and wounded people |
police squad squad | a small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular kind of crime |
police department | the department of local government concerned with enforcing the law and preventing crime |
police police force constabulary law | the force of policemen and officers, the law came looking for him |
Royal Canadian Mounted Police RCMP Mounties | the federal police force of Canada |
military police MP | a military corps that enforces discipline and guards prisoners |
secret police | a police force that operates in secrecy (usually against persons suspected of treason or sedition) |
secret society | a society that conceals its activities from nonmembers |
police academy | an academy for training police officers |
police court | a court that has power to prosecute for minor offenses and to bind over for trial in a superior court anyone accused of serious offenses |
Secret Intelligence Service MI Military Intelligence Section | the government agency in the United Kingdom that is responsible for internal security and counterintelligence overseas |
United States Secret Service US Secret Service USSS Secret Service SS | the United States intelligence agency that protects current and former presidents and vice presidents and their immediate families and protects distinguished foreign visitors, detects and apprehends counterfeiters, suppresses forgery of government securities and documents |
police state | a country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police) |
police precinct | a precinct in which law enforcement is the responsibility of particular police force |
captain police captain police chief | a policeman in charge of a precinct |
constable police constable | a police officer of the lowest rank |
detective investigator tec police detective | a police officer who investigates crimes |
kitchen police KP | an enlisted person who is assigned to assist the cooks |
lieutenant police lieutenant | an officer in a police force |
police commissioner | a civil commissioner appointed to supervise the duties and discipline of the police |
policeman police officer officer | a member of a police force, it was an accident, officer |
police matron policewoman | a woman policeman |
police sergeant sergeant | a lawman with the rank of sergeant |
secret agent intelligence officer intelligence agent operative | a person secretly employed in espionage for a government |
patrol police | maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol |
unavowed secret | not openly made known, a secret marriage, a secret bride |
secret | the next to highest level of official classification for documents |
top-secret | the highest official level of classification of documents |
mysterious mystic mystical occult secret orphic | having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence, beyond ordinary understanding, mysterious symbols, the mystical style of Blake, occult lore, the secret learning of the ancients |
secret private | not expressed, secret (or private) thoughts |