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stop-and-searches

stop-and-searches is the plural of stop-and-search.

Meaning of stop-and-search

Noun

stop-and-search (plural stops-and-searches or stop-and-searches)

  1. A police action of this type.
    • Read literally, he simply ruled that a cop made a bad collar, a stop-and-search without "reasonable suspicion."1996 April 5, "The Baer Truth: It Was A Shameless Judicial Cave-in, New York Daily News (retrieved 20 August 2013)

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Questions about stop-and-searches

What is stop-and-searches the plural of?
Stop-and-searches is the plural of stop-and-search.

Words near stop-and-searches in the dictionary

  1. stop-and-go lights
  2. stop-and-go penalties
  3. stop-and-go penalty
  4. stop-and-gos
  5. stop-and-search
  6. stop-and-searches
  7. stop-gap
  8. stop-gapped
  9. stop-gapping
  10. stop-gaps
  11. stop-go

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