"police procedural" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: police procedurals [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} police procedural (plural police procedurals)
  1. A subgenre of crime fiction which portrays the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes. Unlike in other types of crime fiction, the perpetrator may be known at the outset of the story. Wikipedia link: police procedural Related terms: whodunit, whodunnit Translations (sub-genre of crime fiction): procediment policíac [masculine] (Catalan), roman policier (French), poliziottesco [masculine] (Italian), 경찰물 (gyeongchalmul) (alt: 警察物) (Korean), policíaco [feminine] (Spanish), procedurdeckare [common-gender] (Swedish)

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