| 单词 | precinct captain |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprecinct captain precinct captain n. U.S. (a) the leader of a police precinct; (b) the leader of a political party within an electoral precinct. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > party machine > leader of precinct captain1866 1866 N.Y. Times 8 Apr. 4/5 The President of the Board of Police will take pattern of one of his Precinct Captains, and order his officers to arrest any thief wherever he may be found. 1900 Broad Ax (Chicago) 8 Sept. 1/3 Many of the precinct captains were present for the purpose of forming plans to organize good working clubs in the several precincts. 1954 B. North & R. North tr. M. Duverger Polit. Parties i. i. 19 In the United States the caucuses formed at the county or city level co-ordinate the action of the precinct-captains. 1984 Gainesville (Florida) Sun 28 Mar. 4a/1 Most of those Democrats..were actually endorsing not Mondale but Wayne Derengowski, their precinct captain. 2004 T. Robbins in Harper's Mag. Sept. 59/1 So great has been the objection to being assigned to that sinister beat that the precinct captain has devised a raffle to cope with it. < as lemmas |
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