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policeman Definition

po·lice·man (---mən)

noun pl. -·men---mən

a member of a police force

policeman Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • kill: They try to kill policemen, " he continued.
  • injure: Police later announced that in all there had been 32 attacks on officers, 33 arrests made, and 39 policemen injured.
  • accuse: They aim to consider the two accused policemen as the black sheep and the incident as an accident.
  • fetch: Not suprisingly, he went to fetch a policeman.
  • mount: The parade through the city was led by two large mounted policemen riding equally large horses.
  • assault: Opposite the Treasury I assaulted a policeman; he didn't seem to mind.

Adjective modifier

  • plain-clothes: And the rest had obviously come as plain-clothes policemen.
  • burly: The door imploded; boots came down either side of me as burly policemen marched over my body and into the house.
  • retired: The figures were revealed by retired traffic policeman Peter Nicholson, who still has contacts in the force.
  • undercover: Four suspects were reportedly arrested in Liaoning Province trying to sell a pair of bronzes to undercover policemen for about US$100,000.
  • armed: He duly noted down all the relevant details in a notebook only to find himself surrounded by four very suspicious armed policemen!
  • corrupt: A local " heavy " gets involved, as well as a " working girl " and a corrupt policeman.

Preposition: on

patrol: The teenager managed to make his way outside and informed two policemen on patrol of what had happened.

Noun used with modifier

  • off-duty: An off-duty policeman saw someone and " believed his behavior to be suspect, " said an on-duty police spokey.
  • sleeping: Well this is my idea of a sleeping policeman.
  • riot: I was listening to a radio interview with riot policeman in Berlin this morning.
  • traffic: The figures were revealed by retired traffic policeman Peter Nicholson, who still has contacts in the force.

Possessives

  • truncheon: From various testimonies it became clear that it was Jones who had beaten Imlay, using a policeman's truncheon.
  • helmet: Does he keep any mementos from those days, the odd crushed policeman's helmet?

Preposition: in

uniform: Three policemen in uniform came by a taxi ( number 1816 ) to Thamel and beat another meti Rabi.