The patrolman motioned me to pull over.
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Patrolman
Synonyms for "patrolman" (76 found)
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8 translations across 7 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- уличен полицай noun (police officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty)
Dutch
1 entries- surveillant noun (police officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty)
Finnish
1 entries- passipoliisi noun (police officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty)
Italian
1 entries- pattugliatore noun (police officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty)
Macedonian
2 entries- патро́лџија noun (police officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty)
- позо́рникар noun (police officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty)
Russian
1 entries- патру́льный noun (police officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty)
Spanish
1 entries- patrullero noun (police officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty)
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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?"
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