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.
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