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peace officer
noun
- a civil officer appointed to preserve the public peace, as a sheriff or constable.
Word History and Origins
Origin of peace officer1
Example Sentences
Now L.T. Quinn, he brings in his prisoners alive ... Quinn is a good peace officer and a lay preacher to boot.
Parisian above all, the commissary has had ample time to study his ground when he was yet only a peace-officer.
For the first time, Mlle. Lucienne manifested some reticence, and omitted to repeat the explanations of the peace-officer.
The peace-officer who saved your daughter is precisely the same to whom it was once my good fortune to render a service.
Ochiltree's soliloquy was disturbed by a peace-officer, who came to summon him to attend the magistrate.
He became exclusively a peace officer and custodian of the county jail, and these are the duties of his office today.
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