单词 | beat officer |
释义 | > as lemmasbeat officer beat officer n. (a) U.S. (in Alabama and Mississippi) a local official serving a particular beat (sense 10d); (b) originally U.S. a police officer who patrols a beat (sense 10a). ΚΠ 1846 Mississippian 21 Jan. 1/1 Mr. Cypert submitted a resolution of inquiry by the committee on elections, into the constitutionality and expediency of changing the time of holding elections for county and beat officers. 1868 Lowell (Mass.) Daily Citizen & News 1 Sept. The police force of New Orleans has not been paid for five months... The beat officers have been reduced to actual beggary. 1964 M. Banton Policeman in Community iii. 83 The beat officer has to ‘ring in’ to headquarters every hour from automatic boxes mounted on standards at the kerbside. 1975 Hattiesburg (Mississippi) Amer. 1 Aug. 1/4 A hearing was to begin..seeking to delay election of beat officers in Forrest County. 2009 Guardian (Nexis) 21 Nov. 9 The pledge promises that dedicated beat officers will spend at least 80% of their time on patrol. < as lemmas |
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