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English American English. Enter search text. Britannica English: Translation of patrol for Arabic Speakers. Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! Log in Sign Up. Save Word. Definition of patrol Entry 1 of 2. Definition of patrol Entry 2 of 2. Other Words from patrol Verb patroller noun. Examples of patrol in a Sentence Noun The guard makes a patrol of the building every hour. Soldiers are on patrol along the border.
Army patrols combed the area. Verb The squad had orders to patrol the area. The border is patrolled by the army. Wendeborn and Moore, meanwhile, are composed despite their disappointment. Price, Anchorage Daily News , 3 Nov. First Known Use of patrol Noun , in the meaning defined at sense 1a Verb , in the meaning defined at intransitive sense. From the Cambridge English Corpus. Such encounters appear to have been not infrequent as the patrols took on more responsibility for regular police surveillance.
The only recourse against such maneuvers was to coordinate simultaneous patrols with the other government's forces, an expensive and laborious procedure. While it had often been difficult to organize full patrols, there were few effective sanctions against absenteeism. When excise sales were far too low, they intensified their enforcement efforts through police patrols, informers and other tried and true methods. Having random police patrols apprehend only some "unsuccessful" attempting criminals is not unfair even when such patrols miss other attempting criminals.
Others who blame the military focus more attention on the civil patrols. The monthly fruit patrols of the reserve revealed the seasonality of the bats' food sources. They might spend much time, therefore, patrolling their school and its classrooms, talking with children and offering comment to teachers.
In the two rival groups were separated by a corridor of barriers patrolled by police. Guards patrolled the roads, preventing farmers from leaving the scheme or selling their harvest to outside traders. The long-lived leaves are not patrolled but have an effective chemical defence.
The social connotations of the patrols were immediately apparent. The patrols did resurface in late but seem to have lapsed thereafter. In the process, civil patrols acted in very different ways in different parts of the country. See all examples of patrol. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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