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Meaning of "traffic police" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TRAFFIC POLICE

traffic police  [ˈtræfɪk pəˈliːs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRAFFIC POLICE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Traffic police is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TRAFFIC POLICE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of traffic police in the English dictionary

The definition of traffic police in the dictionary is a unit of a police force, whose job is to control traffic and enforce traffic regulations.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TRAFFIC POLICE


antipolice
ˌæntɪpəˈliːs
continuous-release
kənˈtɪnjʊəsrɪˌliːs
coulisse
kuːˈliːs
delice
dɪˈliːs
fleece
fliːs
headlease
ˈhɛdˌliːs
lease
liːs
lis
liːs
McAleese
ˈmækəliːs
nonpolice
ˌnɒnpəˈliːs
pelisse
pɛˈliːs
police
pəˈliːs
prerelease
ˌpriːrɪˈliːs
quick-release
ˌkwɪkrɪˈliːs
release
rɪˈliːs
rerelease
ˌriːrɪˈliːs
sublease
ˈsʌbˌliːs
sustained-release
səˈsteɪndrɪˌliːs
Tiflis
tɪfˈliːs
underlease
ˈʌndəˌliːs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TRAFFIC POLICE

traffic cop
traffic court
traffic diversion
traffic duty
traffic engineering
traffic holdup
traffic island
traffic jam
traffic light
traffic lights
traffic offence
traffic pattern
traffic policeman
traffic policemen
traffic regulations
traffic sign
traffic signal
traffic signals
traffic violation
traffic warden

WORDS THAT END LIKE TRAFFIC POLICE

airport police
Alice
auxiliary police
border police
campus police
chief of police
county police
kitchen police
Metropolitan Police
military police
mounted police
provincial police
railway police
riot police
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
secret police
security police
State police
the police
thought police
Transport Police

Synonyms and antonyms of traffic police in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «traffic police» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TRAFFIC POLICE

Find out the translation of traffic police to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of traffic police from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «traffic police» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

交警
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

policía de tráfico
570 millions of speakers

English

traffic police
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

यातायात पुलिस
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

شرطة المرور
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ГИБДД
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

polícia de trânsito
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ট্রাফিক পুলিশ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

police de la circulation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

polis trafik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Verkehrspolizei
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

交通巡査
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

교통 경찰
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Polisi lalu lintas
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cảnh sát giao thông
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

போக்குவரத்து காவலர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वाहतूक पोलिस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

trafik polisi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

polizia stradale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

policja drogowa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ГИБДД
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

poliția rutieră
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τροχαίας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verkeerspolisie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

trafikpolisen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

trafikkpoliti
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of traffic police

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TRAFFIC POLICE»

The term «traffic police» is regularly used and occupies the 66.081 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TRAFFIC POLICE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «traffic police» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «traffic police» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about traffic police

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRAFFIC POLICE»

Discover the use of traffic police in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to traffic police and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Police in India
At present, it appears that there are no visible signs of improvement in the situation, though the traffic police are striving their best to remedy this exasperating situation. Even cattle squat on the roads and hamper traffic movements.
M. B. Chande, 1997
2
Police for the Future
... benefiting drivers and insurance companies that could easily be performed by civilians. In defense of their importance to crime prevention, traffic police often point out that in enforcing traffic regulations they discover wanted persons, stolen  ...
David H. Bayley, 1996
3
The Japanese Police System Today: A Comparative Study
... Enforcement Section Traffic Regulation Section Driver's Licence Section Traffic Education & Training Section Mobile Traffic Police Unit Expressway Traffic Police Unit Traffic Department Public Safety Security Section Security Section Foreign ...
L. Craig Parker, 2001
4
Understanding the Modern Russian Police
Main department of security of traffic movement (GIDD) registration Manages work of traffic police responsible for enforcement of traffic rules, licensing of drivers, and vehicle Department of traffic patrol services and car searches Department for ...
Olga B. Semukhina, Kenneth Michael Reynolds, 2013
5
Louisville Division of Police: History & Personnel
Two Traffic police were stationed at the intersection to educate drivers and pedestrians to observ e and comply with the signals. Newspapers published articles explaining what the red. green and yellow signals meant. It might he a good idea ...
Morton O. Childress, 2005
6
Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City
... if they observed them.47 But police worked around this problem through other regulations that incidentally slowed traffic. Police officials also tended to defend the customary rights of those on foot, and to expect automobiles to defer to them.
Peter D. Norton, 2008
7
Military Police
The effectiveness of traffic control is obviously dependent upon the degree to which all personnel subject to it comply with general traffic regulations, special traffic orders, and directions of military traffic police. Such compliance depends upon ...
United States. War Dept, 1941
8
Police Education and Training in a Global Society
After completing this training, they are given their choice of going to traffic police, or to the prosecutor's office (Bezirkaiiwaltschaften) where they serve as secretary of the examining magistrates (Untersuchungsrichter). After four to five years of ...
Peter C. Kratcoski, Dilip K. Das, 2007
9
Traffic Law and Its Enforcement,Sixteenth Report of Session: ...
We were struck by the extent to which traffic police felt their work was not appreciated, and not properly managed. Moreover, the Government's position does not take account of the fact that traffic volumes are rising. It is unacceptable that traffic ...
Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee, 2004
10
The New Police Science: The Police Power in Domestic and ...
Miller McClintock, author of the first traffic engineering textbook, defined traffic police as educators: "Think of him as teacher of civic and community obligations" (McClintock 1927, 17). At the senior policy-making levels the police increasingly  ...
Markus Dirk Dubber, Mariana Valverde, 2006

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRAFFIC POLICE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term traffic police is used in the context of the following news items.
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Uber ban failure triggers blame game between Delhi government …
Failure to enforce a ban on Uber cab service today triggered a blame game between Delhi Government and Traffic Police with both putting the onus on each ... «BGR India, Dec 14»

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