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Police captain   /pəlˈis kˈæptən/   Listen
Police captain

noun
1.
A policeman in charge of a precinct.  Synonyms: captain, police chief.






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"Police captain" Quotes from Famous Books



... mother's darling, a milksop,' his father, Andrei Nikolaevitch, would call him; 'but he's always ready to go into the house of God.... And that I am glad to see.' Only one old neighbour, who had been a police captain, once said before me, speaking of Misha, 'Mark my words, he'll be a rebel.' And this saying, I remember, surprised me very much at the time. The old police captain, it is true, used to see rebels ...
— A Desperate Character and Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev



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