Patrolman Meaning
/pəˈtroʊˌlmæn/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA police officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty instead of detection or supervision.
Sentence Examples
The patrolman motioned me to pull over.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ caught the thief while walking through the park at midnight.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ stopped the vehicle for a routine check and discovered the driver had no valid license.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree English patrol English -man English patrolman From patrol + -man.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ caught the thief while walking through the park at midnight.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ stopped the vehicle for a routine check and discovered the driver had no valid license.