| 单词 | armed police |
| 释义 | > as lemmasarmed police armed police n. (originally) a body of police carrying arms, an armed police force; (now usually) (with plural agreement) a number of police officers carrying guns, esp. (British) officers of a police division or unit trained and authorized to use firearms (cf. firearms officer n. at firearm n. Compounds 2b). ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > branch or part of police force > specific water1552 armed police1787 special police1804 detective force1849 traffic police1883 vice squad1905 drug squad1913 blue force1920 ghost squad1922 flying squad1927 Sweeney1936 morality squad1945 courtesy patrol1961 strike force1961 pussy posse1963 drugs squad1965 vice1967 mobile1971 uniform branch1972 uniform1978 NCIS1991 1787 G. Grace Short Plea for Human Nature & Common Sense 43 Overunning the country with an armed police instead of an armed soldiery. 1802 R. Musgrave Mem. Rebellions in Ireland (ed. 3) I. 52 By that law government were empowered to raise an armed police in any county they chose. 1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 41 The brotherhood which formed the old Spanish rural armed police. 1919 America 29 Nov. 100/2 The premises of Mr Hoban, news agent, Parnell Street, and Mr. Michael Brady, Talbot Street, Dublin, were raided by armed police and exhaustively searched. 1960 Guardian 25 Feb. 9/4 The arrival of jeep-loads of armed police. 2003 Daily Star 25 Mar. 17/4 He was arrested by armed police after a tense two-hour stand-off. < as lemmas |
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