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policewoman

[ puh-lees-woom-uhn ]

noun

, plural po·lice·wom·en.
  1. a female member of a police force or body.


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Gender Note

See -woman.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of policewoman1

First recorded in 1850–55; police + -woman

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Example Sentences

A policewoman was shot dead this morning while law enforcement searched for the Charlie Lebdo killers.

Acting as a moral policewoman, she busted the couples on camera—on a Pakistani TV channel called Samaa.

One cell is suspected of killing 10 people since 2000, nine immigrants and a policewoman.

Murdoch praised the courage and poise of a young policewoman who arrived first on the scene with a male colleague.

"I was even with my husband one time when a policewoman gave me a warning about bad hijab," she says.

Elisaveta felt uncomfortably unclean after she had passed through the policewoman's paws.

Young man, if this were a performance, you would be dealt with by our aesthetic policewoman.

She pulled up the anchor, but this time the policewoman did the rowing, and she rowed well.

Policewoman McLine is the only one that I could say that was definitely there.

The Policewoman reported that she was given every courtesy and assistance by both police and railway officials.

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