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Policeman
//pəˈliːsmən// noun
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Noun
- 1 A police officer, usually a male.
"The policeman who arrests the "Red" does not understand the theories the "Red" is preaching; if he did, his own position as bodyguard of the monied class might seem less pleasant to him."
- 2 a male member of a police force wordnet
- 3 A glass rod capped at one end with rubber, used in a chemistry laboratory for gravimetric analysis.
- 4 Any skipper of the genus Coeliades.
- 5 Synonym of enforcer.
"A team may have a policeman or enforcer."
Etymology
From police + -man.
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