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Patrolman

noun

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Noun
  1. 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?""

  2. 2
    a male policeman who patrols a given region wordnet

Etymology

From patrol + -man.

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