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desk sergeant

desk sergeant noun: a sergeant who has an administrative position inside of a police station.

Noun

desk sergeant (plural desk sergeants)

  1. A sergeant who has an administrative position inside of a police station.
    • A woman ran into the police station and told the desk sergeant she had been robbed.
    • After arriving at the Area A police station, I renewed my protests that as a working reporter with visible police credentials, I should not have been arrested. The desk sergeant insisted that I be booked, however, and I was put into the holding tank, a fifteen-by-fifteen dark and filthy cell, with...1983 December 24, Larry Goldsmith, “Cops Bust 70 Anti-Nuke Demonstrators”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 6

Forms of desk sergeant

pluraldesk sergeants

Questions about desk sergeant

What does desk sergeant mean?
Desk sergeant means a sergeant who has an administrative position inside of a police station.
What part of speech is desk sergeant?
Desk sergeant is a noun.
What is the plural of desk sergeant?
The plural of desk sergeant is desk sergeants.

Words near desk sergeant in the dictionary

  1. desk potato
  2. desk potatoes
  3. desk rage
  4. desk rejection
  5. desk rejections
  6. desk sergeant
  7. desk sergeants
  8. desk tidies
  9. desk tidy
  10. desk work
  11. Deskati

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