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Definition of Plainclothesman
1. Noun. A detective who wears civilian clothes on duty.
Definition of Plainclothesman
1. Noun. A police officer (especially a detective) who wears civilian clothes when on duty ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Plainclothesman
1. [n PLAINCLOTHESMEN]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plainclothesman
Literary usage of Plainclothesman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Police Systems by Raymond Blaine Fosdick (1920)
"Defeated at the election, he was reinstated in the department as a plainclothesman.
" We are so riddled with politics," an officer of the Toledo force told ..."
2. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"... had been arrested by a plainclothesman, who, as they say in Harlem, had lucked
out on him; that is, the officer had picked him up merely on suspicion, ..."
3. Guatemala, Getting Away with Murder: An Americas Watch and Physicians for by Americas Watch Committee (U.S.), Anne Manuel, Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.) (1991)
"The plainclothesman then 42 The CERJ and GAM have maintained voluminous files of
complaints from ..."
4. More Than a Name: State-Sponsored Homophobia and Its Consequences in by Scott Long, A. Widney Brown, Gail Cooper (2003)
"And after the plainclothesman slapped me, another policeman came up and said: "Don't
do that, these guys are related to the ambassador. ..."
5. Richmond, Virginia: Report on a Survey of the City Government by Civic association of Richmond, Va (1917)
"... to safeguard its citizens through the use of the old type "plainclothesman"
whose only claim to assignment for detective work is political influence. ..."
6. City and County of Denver: Report on a Survey of Certain Departments by Colorado Taxpayers Protective League (1914)
"... "plainclothesman." The detective must be more than a patrolman without a uniform.
The members of the detective division receive no more training than do ..."
7. Human Rights Watch World Report 1992 by Human Rights Watch (Organization (1991)
"For example, on August 1, two National Police agents helped a plainclothesman
capture fifteen-year-old Edwin Esteban Rodriguez Garcia, a street child, ..."
8. American Police Systems by Raymond Blaine Fosdick (1920)
"Defeated at the election, he was reinstated in the department as a plainclothesman.
" We are so riddled with politics," an officer of the Toledo force told ..."
9. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"... had been arrested by a plainclothesman, who, as they say in Harlem, had lucked
out on him; that is, the officer had picked him up merely on suspicion, ..."
10. Guatemala, Getting Away with Murder: An Americas Watch and Physicians for by Americas Watch Committee (U.S.), Anne Manuel, Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.) (1991)
"The plainclothesman then 42 The CERJ and GAM have maintained voluminous files of
complaints from ..."
11. More Than a Name: State-Sponsored Homophobia and Its Consequences in by Scott Long, A. Widney Brown, Gail Cooper (2003)
"And after the plainclothesman slapped me, another policeman came up and said: "Don't
do that, these guys are related to the ambassador. ..."
12. Richmond, Virginia: Report on a Survey of the City Government by Civic association of Richmond, Va (1917)
"... to safeguard its citizens through the use of the old type "plainclothesman"
whose only claim to assignment for detective work is political influence. ..."
13. City and County of Denver: Report on a Survey of Certain Departments by Colorado Taxpayers Protective League (1914)
"... "plainclothesman." The detective must be more than a patrolman without a uniform.
The members of the detective division receive no more training than do ..."
14. Human Rights Watch World Report 1992 by Human Rights Watch (Organization (1991)
"For example, on August 1, two National Police agents helped a plainclothesman
capture fifteen-year-old Edwin Esteban Rodriguez Garcia, a street child, ..."
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