policewoman
Americannoun
Gender
See -woman.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of policewoman
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Frederick D’Sa, an 83-year-old retired Indian army colonel, said the Mumbai policewoman who he thought arrested him last October over WhatsApp for allegedly funding terrorists was entirely believable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
"You want to be a policewoman you can come if you want," he is said to have told her.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2025
I asked the equine squad for the breed of horses and one policewoman told me, “Percherons, with a few Clydesdales in the back.”
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2024
In one final scene, she reveals her name and her real-life dream: to become a policewoman.
From Seattle Times ● May 26, 2024
The detective took the paper, and he and the policewoman left.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
Asked whether there were any charges against Maryam Al-Khawaja, the Bahraini government said she was convicted after she assaulted two policewomen in 2014 and she "never served or appealed her one year sentence".
From Reuters ● Sep. 15, 2023
A legal official familiar with Suu Kyi’s court proceedings said she is being held in a newly constructed building with three policewomen, whose duty is to assist her.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
“She joined policing at a time when policewomen were faced with seemingly insurmountable obstacles,” Chief Michel Moore said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2021
They are also helping evacuate women whose jobs have landed them on the Taliban’s list of potential targets, including some women who trained Afghan policewomen, lawyers and politicians.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2021
A Negro engineer monitored recording equipment between the altar and the coffin which was guarded by eight uniformed Negro policemen and two uniformed Negro policewomen.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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