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Definition of Police sergeant
1. Noun. A lawman with the rank of sergeant.
Specialized synonyms: Buck Sergeant, Desk Sergeant, Deskman, Station Keeper
Generic synonyms: Law Officer, Lawman, Peace Officer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Police Sergeant
Literary usage of Police sergeant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Parliamentary Debatesby Great Britain Parliament by Great Britain Parliament (1902)
"Maintenance Charge of a police sergeant Declared Insane. ... of Ireland whether
he is aware that a police sergeant stationed at Booterstown, County Dublin, ..."
2. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1868)
"TRIAL FOR THE RESCUE OF FENIAN PRISONERS AND MURDER OF A police sergeant AT
MANCHESTER. A SPECIAL Commission having been appointed by the Crown for the ..."
3. Police Administration: A Critical Study of Police Organisations in the by Leonhard Felix Fuld (1909)
"In a recent examination for promotion to the position of police sergeant in New
York City, one candidate was found by the physicians to be suffering from ..."
4. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1921)
"Held, that no error was shown relating to this question asked of the police sergeant.
At the same trial, a police captain, to whom the sergeant took the ..."
5. In Search of a Polar Continent, 1905-1907 by Alfred H. Harrison (1908)
"... amongst the whalers—The belated tender—Meeting with an ethnologist—An expectant
throng—Hard times—A gallant police-sergeant — Some anecdotes — Shattered ..."
6. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1921)
"... question asked of the police sergeant. At the same trial, a police captain,
to whom the sergeant took the defendant, was - permitted to testify that, ..."