person of interest
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.02 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone who police have reason to believe may have a connection to a crime, or to possess important information relating to that crime, but who has not been accused or charged by authorities nor been officially deemed to be a suspect.
Canadian usage; American usage
Example Sentences
- "Tice denies involvement in any conspiracy. . . . Still, Morgan says Tice and "three or four other people" remain "persons of interest" in the investigation."
- "Abdellatif has been interviewed five times by Australian security services since the dropping of the charges and remains a "person of interest" to the federal police."
- "The 19-year-old man from a Phoenix suburb who was detained on Friday at a convenience store near Interstate 10 is a person of interest, but Bart Graves, a spokesman for the Arizona Department of Public Safety, declined to say what had led the police to question the man."
- "The grainy images of what the F.B.I. described as a “person of interest in connection with the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk” show a man wearing a baseball cap, dark sunglasses and a black long-sleeve shirt with an image on it that appears to include, in part, a picture of the American flag."