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patrolman

patrolman noun: a police officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty instead of detection or supervision.

Noun

patrolman (plural patrolmen)

  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

patrolman meaning in Bengali

patrolman in Bengali

একজন পুলিশ কর্মকর্তা

Examples of patrolman in a sentence

  • He busted him down to patrolman for insubordination.
  • The sharp-eyed detective noticed things the ordinary patrolman missed.
  • The patrolmen were given a hot sheet of stolen cars.

All 10 example sentences with patrolman

Forms of patrolman

pluralpatrolmen

Plural of patrolman: patrolmen

Origin of patrolman

From patrol + -man.

Questions about patrolman

What does patrolman mean?
Patrolman means a police officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty instead of detection or supervision.
What is patrolman in Bengali?
Patrolman in Bengali is একজন পুলিশ কর্মকর্তা. See Patrolman meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is patrolman?
Patrolman is a noun.
What is the plural of patrolman?
The plural of patrolman is patrolmen.

Words near patrolman in the dictionary

  1. patrolled
  2. patroller
  3. patrollers
  4. patrolling
  5. patrollings
  6. patrolman
  7. patrolmen
  8. patrologic
  9. patrological
  10. patrologies
  11. patrologist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: patrolman (page history and authors); patrolman (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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