| 单词 | traffic warden |
| 释义 | > as lemmastraffic warden traffic warden n. originally and chiefly British an official employed to locate and report on infringements of parking regulations and (sometimes) other traffic regulations; cf. parking attendant n. (b) at parking n. Compounds 2.Originally, traffic warden was the official designation of a person employed in this role by the police; the term has subsequently been applied more generally to any person performing the same or similar duties. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > officials attached to police force searcher1834 police boy1914 traffic warden1928 police dispatcher1935 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [noun] > traffic control > person who controls traffic > traffic warden parking attendant1927 traffic warden1928 brown bomber1953 parking warden1966 1928 Devon & Exeter Daily Gaz. 30 May 2/5 The Sub-Committee recommended that the Standing Joint Committee should sanction the engagement of twenty temporary policemen as traffic wardens during the summer. 1959 Punch 25 Feb. 274/1 Any supposed similarity of function between the police and the newly-proposed traffic wardens vanished with the official statement that the wardens ‘would help motorists to find parking space’. 2019 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 18 July ‘When we have deliveries there is nowhere for them to park,’ she said. ‘It seems like there is an army of traffic wardens waiting to pounce.’ < as lemmas |
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