patrolman

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patrolman

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From patrol + -man.

noun patrolmen

A police officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty instead of detection or supervision. 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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noun police officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty

Español	patrullero
Italiano	pattugliatore
Русский	патру́льный patrúlʹnyj

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@misc{patrolman_2026,
  title = {patrolman},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/patrolman},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}