Look up: sheriff

1. sheriff
   [n] - the principal law-enforcement officer in a county
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2. Sheriff
   Royal official, based in a castle, who was in charge of law and order
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3. Sheriff
   principal official administering a shire or county in the Anglo-Saxon and medieval periods for the Crown
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4. sheriff
   In England and Wales, the crown's chief executive officer in a county for ceremonial purposes; in Scotland, the equivalent of the English county-court judge, but also dealing with criminal cases;...
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5. Sheriff
   An officer of the Crown whose duties, amongst other things, consist of the enforcement of High Court writs of execution
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6. Sheriff
   Sher'iff noun [ Middle English shereve , Anglo-Saxon scīr-ger...fa ; scīr a shire + ger...fa a reeve. See Shire, and Reeve , and confer Shrievalty .] The chief officer of a shire or county, to who...
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7. sheriff
   noun the principal law-enforcement officer in a county
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8. Sheriff
   • (n.) The chief officer of a shire or county, to whom is intrusted the execution of the laws, the serving of judicial writs and processes, and the preservation of the peace.
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9. sheriff
   a senior executive officer in an English county or smaller area who performs a variety of administrative and judicial functions. Officers of this ... [5 related articles]
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10. Sheriff
    Sheriff is a cultivated variety of potato.
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11. Sheriff
    (n) A Sheriff is the law enforcing officer appointed with the responsibility of providing protection and policing the jail, courts, civil activity etc
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12. sheriff
    n. the top law enforcement officer for a county, usually elected and responsible for police protection outside of incorporated cities, management of the county jail, providing bailiffs for protection of the courts, and such civil activities as serving summonses, subpenas and writs, conducting judgme...
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13. Sheriff
    The sheriff is a British light cabin monoplane and trainer aircraft. It was developed during the early 1980s.
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14. sheriff
    In England and Wales, the crown's chief executive officer in a county for ceremonial purposes; in Scotland, the equivalent of the English county-court judge, but also dealing with criminal cases; and in the USA the popularly elected head law-enforcement officer of a county, combining judicial authority with administrative duties
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15. Sheriff
    The chief official of a County (Hey 1998 p 415).
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16. Sheriff
    A `sheriff` is in principle a legal official with responsibility for a county. In practice, the specific combination of legal, political, and shire reeve--> is a contraction of the term "shire reeve". The term, from the Old English scīrgerefa, designated a royal official responsi...
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17. Sheriff
    (band) `Sheriff` was a Canadian rock band in the early 1980s, best known for their hit song "When I`m with You". Biography: The band was formed in 1979 in Toronto, Ontario and consisted of vocalist Freddy Curci, guitarist Steve DeMarchi, keyboardist Arnold Lanni, bassist Wolf Hassel...
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18. Sheriff
    (company) `Sheriff` (in Cyrillic: Шериф) is the second-largest company based in Transnistria. Formed in the early 1990s by Viktor Gushan and Ilya Kazmaly, former members of the special services, Sheriff has grown to include nearly all forms of profitable private business in t...
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19. Sheriff
    (arcade game) is an arcade game developed by Nintendo R&D1 in 1979, designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Genyo Takeda.<ref name="iwataasks2"/> Some sources, 2005, ISBN 4-9902512-0-2.--> claim that Ikegami Tsushinki also did design work on Sheriff. It is one of the earliest...
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20. SHERIFF
    `SHERIFF` is a telecom fraud detection and management system, originally developed by BT and MCI. SHERIFF is an acronym for Statistical Heuristic Engine to Reliably and Intelligently Fight Fraud. Initially installed in 1998 to monitor BTs newly replaced calling card service - charge card - monitored...
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