sheriffs
- 1Plural of sheriff.
Voters in both counties will elect new sheriffs in November.
Several sheriffs testified before the state legislature about funding for county jails.
Note
The plural keeps one r and two f's and simply adds -s; it never shifts to -ves the way leaf does. What it names depends on the country. American sheriffs are usually elected and run county law enforcement and the jail; Scottish sheriffs are judges of the sheriff court; in Britain, High Sheriffs hold a county office with court and law-enforcement duties.
sheriffs is a form of sheriff
sheriff, noun: A government official, usually elected, who typically runs a county's law enforcement and its jail and sometimes serves as an officer of the court. Full entry
- Forms
- sheriffsheriffs plural
- Spelling
- sheriff → sheriffs: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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