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patrolman en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From patrol + -man.

Meanings

1. A police officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty instead of detection or supervision.
   • On September 9, when a solitary Japanese patrolman tried to curtail the work of five Taiwanese who were cutting trees from a windbreak (in Anting settlement, Sinhua district), the accused responded "Taiwan is not Japan's land. Why are you stopping us?" 2006, Ping-hui Liao, David Der-wei Wang, Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895–1945, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=pHlwcjwt7fEC&pg=PT391:

Forms

Translations (9)

fi partiopoliisi (police officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty) · bg уличен полицай (police officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty) · es patrullero (police officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty) · fi passipoliisi (police officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty) · mk патро́лџија (police officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty) · mk позо́рникар (police officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty) · it pattugliatore (police officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty) · nl surveillant (police officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty) · ru патру́льный (police officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty)