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officers

noun as in cadre

noun as in police

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French officials were already on edge after a series of apparently unconnected attacks, including the stabbing of police officers.

The young men were at one point, according to eyewitnesses, apprehended by local police officers.

Similarly, a recent NPR report covered the challenges many police departments are having recruiting officers of color.

Then we all have to do our part to engage the officers and our community, and hold everyone accountable in the process.

They included the officers who had turned their backs on the Jumbotron, but there now was only reverence in their ranks.

The Spaniards captured two schooners, having on board 22 officers and 30 men, all of whom were hanged or sent to the mines.

It is only just to say, that the officers exhibited a degree of courage far beyond any thing we had expected from them.

Off went the officers again, some distance to the front, and then back again to their men, and got them on a little further.

While they were doing this, he assembled the officers around him, and the meaning of our night march was explained to us.

With each division, in addition to the divisional staff, there were officers detached from the headquarters staff.

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On this page you'll find 137 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to officers, such as: board, bureau, cabinet, committee, department, and executive.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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