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Police officer   /pəlˈis ˈɔfəsər/   Listen
Police officer

noun
1.
A member of a police force.  Synonyms: officer, policeman.






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"Police officer" Quotes from Famous Books



... not my business to settle your affairs," said the engineer. "Go to the rural captain or the police officer." ...
— The Witch and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov

... in the French idiom, "always to hold the dame," mechanically raised the arms he had previously dejected, and the police officer, with an approving ...
— Night and Morning, Volume 3 • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... A police officer, corpulent and full of importance, now came on board and handed the captain a sheet of paper on which he was desired to inscribe the name and destination of the vessel, from what port she had sailed, what burthen she carried, and other notices of ...
— Hair Breadth Escapes - Perilous incidents in the lives of sailors and travelers - in Japan, Cuba, East Indies, etc., etc. • T. S. Arthur

... overwrought, fanciful, that it is not true. But if it is, if Cavendish is begging in our streets, then, so surely as I am Lieutenant-Governor of Alleghenia, I will pull him out of them, and make a man of him, if it takes a month and every police officer and detective in Kenton City to find him. And that not alone for your sake, tenderest-hearted, but for mine. I can afford to be generous, God bless your ...
— The Lieutenant-Governor • Guy Wetmore Carryl

... desperate and decided I'd blow the whole thing to the Coolidge lawyer, and get him to take a hand. I was afraid they were already for the get-a-way—see? I couldn't round 'em up alone; besides I'm a Chicago police officer, and have to keep more or less ...
— The Case and The Girl • Randall Parrish


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