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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
policewoman
noun
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▪ A policewoman discovered the blaze which occurred in the early hours of yesterday.
▪ Babur sneaks a look at the policewoman.
▪ One final question seems pertinent: What would the response have been had Mr Brettell's offence involved instead an undercover policewoman?
▪ The policewoman, Song Anni, came up to survey the scene.
▪ Then blonde Lesley Harrison found the life she really wanted to lead ... as a policewoman.
▪ Two young policewomen stood there, and David was talking to them.
▪ When a policewoman got out of the vehicle he rammed it and drove straight into a wall which was demolished.
Wiktionary
policewoman

n. A female police officer.

WordNet
policewoman

n. a woman policeman [syn: police matron]

Wikipedia
Policewoman
  1. redirect Women in law enforcement
Policewoman (film)

La poliziotta (internationally released as Policewoman) is a 1974 Italian comedy film directed by Steno. For this film Mariangela Melato was awarded with a David di Donatello for Best Actress.

Usage examples of "policewoman".

I looked at a policewoman wearing a skirt that was very nonregulation length.

Because I was obviously not a policewoman or a pusher of some vampirish sort, a surprising number of people talked to me.

Sergeant Nick Yanov, one of the few sober policemen at the party, overpowered the spitting kicking cursing policewoman and dragged her still naked into the other bedroom where Officer Sheila Franklin got her in a wristlock until she fell exhausted, blurting what Father Willie had done.

Clements was treating the policewoman to one of his lectures, waving his hands as he pontificated on change and decay, Utopias and Dystopias, past glory and contemporary decadence.

An opportunity like the one that had occurred with the two policewomen came along once in a year at best.

I’ve asked Policewoman Bellweather to make a few very discreet inquiries among the Arts and Crafts people.

The policewoman was Sadie Bellweather, and she sat a little apart from the others, with a shorthand notebook on her knee.

All looked towards the bull’s head, Mr Chubb with cold appraisal, Malley stolidly, Love and Harper craning like tourists anxious to get their money’s worth, Pook indifferently, and Policewoman Bellweather with that rigidity of mien with which she had trained herself to confront all things unusual or distasteful, from a motor accident to a rashly proffered penis.

Policewoman Bellweather gave her a nervous little smile, bobbed apologetically, and went out of the room.

He was greatly relieved when Policewoman Bellweather came back into the room.

Then he returned the notebook to Policewoman Bellweather, motioned her to hang on to the box and its contents, and said to Mrs Pentatuke: “I have to tell you that I propose now to take to police headquarters, Flaxborough, the articles which I have shown to you and which I believe to be your property.

Love picked up the mouse by its tail, which had become limp in the warm air, and pretended to set off in search of Policewoman Bellweather.

I’ve asked Policewoman Bellweather to make a few very discreet inquiries among the Arts and Crafts people.

All looked towards the bull’s head, Mr Chubb with cold appraisal, Malley stolidly, Love and Harper craning like tourists anxious to get their money’s worth, Pook indifferently, and Policewoman Bellweather with that rigidity of mien with which she had trained herself to confront all things unusual or distasteful, from a motor accident to a rashly proffered penis.

Then he returned the notebook to Policewoman Bellweather, motioned her to hang on to the box and its contents, and said to Mrs Pentatuke: “I have to tell you that I propose now to take to police headquarters, Flaxborough, the articles which I have shown to you and which I believe to be your property.