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patrolmen

patrolmen is the plural of patrolman.

Meaning of patrolman

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

Questions about patrolmen

What is patrolmen the plural of?
Patrolmen is the plural of patrolman.

Words near patrolmen in the dictionary

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

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