Usually means: Law enforcement officers, local authority.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. constables: Merriam-Webster
  2. constables: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Constables, constables: Vocabulary.com
  4. Constable's, Constables, constable's, constables: Wordnik
  5. constables: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. constables: Wiktionary
  7. constables: Dictionary.com
  8. constables: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Constables: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Constables: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. constables: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Constables: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Constables: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Constable)

noun:  One holding the lowest rank in most Commonwealth police forces. (See also chief constable.)
noun:  (UK, law) A police officer or an officer with equivalent powers.
noun:  (historical) An officer of a noble court in the Middle Ages, usually a senior army commander. (See also marshal).
noun:  The warden of a castle.
noun:  (US) An elected or appointed public officer, usually at municipal level, responsible for maintaining order or serving writs and court orders.
noun:  (Channel Islands) An elected head of a parish (also known as a connétable)
noun:  A large butterfly, Dichorragia nesimachus, family Nymphalidae, of Asia.
verb:  (intransitive, dated) To act as a constable or policeman.
noun:  An English surname originating as an occupation from Old French conestable (“constable”).
noun:  A town in Franklin County, New York; named for landowner William Constable.
noun:  John Constable, English painter.
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