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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
traffic warden
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A traffic warden is at the sharp end of the twentieth century guy.
▪ A traffic warden, finding an empty car, gave the Vicar a parking ticket.
▪ A moment later they closed the ambulance door, a siren started up and the traffic warden began waving me on.
▪ Back in the car park, I found that an officious traffic warden had decided to make my day.
▪ Four days from the nearest tarmac discourages the average vandal, factory unit or traffic warden.
▪ I called on a conveniently passing traffic warden to help me out.
▪ The traffic warden helped by urging them on.
Wiktionary
traffic warden

n. (context British English) A civilian employed by the police to regulate traffic and issue parking tickets.

Usage examples of "traffic warden".

Hash is all right perhaps but I saw a lot of heroin addicts when I walked the streets as a traffic warden.

Because his mind was far from what he was doing, he almost missed the traffic warden standing in the road before him.

Self-defence is taught more for fun and morale building than for any real purpose - a traffic warden has more need of it than an MI6 officer and physical violence is never deliberately used.

The sneezing policeman, the tragic traffic warden, the bald black postman in his running shoes.

She was just keeping me sweet, because I was going to be the one who leaped out of the car and dashed off for the damned jar of magic ointment while she flirted with the traffic warden.

Outside, the driver of a wet fish van was arguing violently with a sad traffic warden.

Franco the proprietor brought us grappa with the coffee and we sat and talked about Soho and about Billy Big and Harry the Hanger Man and what the cross-eyed man from the fish shop shouted at the traffic warden.

Fortunately, Papa had arranged for her to retain her diplomatic plates, and she parked at the kerb right outside the front door and smiled winningly at the hovering traffic warden.

The way Hank saw it, nobody became a prison guard or a traffic warden because it was a calling.