Meanings
nounpatrolman (plural patrolmen)
plural patrolmen
- 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
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian уличен полицай
- уличен полицай (uličen policaj)police officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty
Dutch surveillant
- surveillantpolice officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty
Finnish partiopoliisi, passipoliisi
- partiopoliisipolice officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty
- passipoliisipolice officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty
Italian pattugliatore
- pattugliatorepolice officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty
Russian патру́льный
- патру́льный (patrúlʹnyj)police officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty
Spanish patrullero
- patrulleropolice officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty
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Chicago
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