Sheriff

Noun

 * 1)  excl.  (High Sheriff) An official of a shire or county office, responsible for carrying out court orders and other duties.
 * 2)  A judge in the sheriff court, the court of a county or sheriffdom.
 * 3) 🇺🇸 A police officer, usually the chief of police for a county or other district.

Alternative forms

 * shrieve

Adjectives for Sheriff
varlet; burly; brooding; mean.

Verbs for Sheriff
authorize—; baffle—; commission—; delegate—; dodge—;  elude—;  empower—; evade—; frustrate—; perplex—; thwart—; vest in—; —apprehends; —compels; —confines ; —deputizes; —enforces ; —escorts; — grapples; —implicates; —incriminates ; — repossesses; —restrains; —sanctions; — serves; —snares.

Thesaurus
G-man, MP, bailiff, beadle, beagle, bound bailiff, captain, catchpole, chief of police, commissioner, constable, deputy, deputy sheriff, detective, fed, federal, flic, gendarme, government man, inspector, lictor, lieutenant, mace-bearer, marshal, mounted policeman, narc, officer, patrolman, peace officer, police captain, police commissioner, police constable, police inspector, police matron, police officer, police sergeant, policeman, policewoman, portreeve, reeve, roundsman, sergeant, sergeant at arms, superintendent, tipstaff, tipstaves, trooper

Etymology
scīrġerēfa, corresponding to shire + reeve.

Translations

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 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, seriffi
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 * Icelandic: fógeti
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Norwegian:, lensmann
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 * Polish:
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 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: шериф
 * Roman: šerif
 * Spanish:
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 * Turkish: şerif
 * Ukrainian: