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单词 convict overseer
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convict overseer

noun Australian historical
A convict appointed to supervise labouring prisoners: they do their work guarded by a convict overseer and an armed soldier...
  • A retired officer and his convict overseer went into the bush to meet with the aborigines.
  • A convict overseer was hard on a sickly convict.
  • He'd had been chosen as a convict overseer because he could speak English 'and the native languages'.
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