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Kavass


Definition:

  • (n.) An armed constable; also, a government servant or courier.

Example Sentences:

Policeman


Definition:

  • (n.) A member of a body of police; a constable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It seems like an awfully long way from the ground.” He added: “When I was younger, I dreamed of being an astronaut, but I also wanted to be a policeman or a firebreather.
  • (2) Sometimes the way the MP [military policeman] holds the head chokes me, and with all the nerves in the nose the tube passing the nose is like torture,” Dhiab said in a legal filing.
  • (3) A fifth victim - an Israeli policeman - succumbed to his injuries late on Tuesday night.
  • (4) Barack Obama today phoned the white policeman he said had "acted stupidly" in arresting a black Harvard professor in his own home and invited the officer to visit the White House as the president attempted to defuse a growing race row over the incident.
  • (5) It featured Adam Dalgliesh, the poet-policeman, and he seemed old-fashioned, too, intellectual and a trifle upper-class.
  • (6) The general atmosphere was that there was no point in summoning the police – the policeman is a local settler from Kiryat Arba who comes to pray with the Hebron settlers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs on Fridays.
  • (7) Further up the scale, the median teacher pension was £10,275, although retired policeman are on average picking up £15,636 and the average retired judge is on £53,876.
  • (8) Russian officials said the diplomat had attacked the policeman.
  • (9) When Michael is naughty she threatens to hand him over to "the policeman" and she sends grumpy Jane to exile inside a cracked Doulton bowl.
  • (10) He was speaking shortly before the arrival at RAF Lyneham, in Wiltshire, of the bodies of six British troops, including five shot dead by a "rogue" Afghan policeman they were training.
  • (11) In fact, though, it’s the policeman who appears ill at ease.
  • (12) The tissue flask adherent population was removed with the aid of a rubber policeman.
  • (13) O’Driscoll was cleared of knowing about Quinn, but faced two other charges – that he was part of the Chelsea policeman conspiracy and the alleged conspiracy to pay Neave for information on high profiles prisoners such as the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe.
  • (14) "These are crucial elections that we hope will make things better in Iraq," said one voter, policeman Hatef Yidam.
  • (15) A policeman holds up his hand to stop the protesters.
  • (16) No policeman had taken part in torture and the killings of thousands of activists.
  • (17) The idea was conceived by Ryan Coogler , whose 2013 Cannes award-winning drama Fruitvale Station told the real-life story of a young black man shot dead by a white transport policeman in the early hours of New Year’s Day 2009.
  • (18) A policeman who used an anonymous blog to post personal opinions on the force and criticise government ministers has received a written warning but is unlikely to face further disciplinary action.
  • (19) A Swiss special policeman patrols on a roof before the start of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum 2014 in Davos.
  • (20) In Womme, a local policeman said villagers believe that Ebola is nothing more than an invention of white people, to kill black people.

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