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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
uniformed
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
uniformed police
▪ Uniformed police and plainclothes detectives were present in large numbers.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
constable
▪ They loomed up, two uniformed constables.
▪ There was a uniformed constable by the bed all the time, but David Evans was hanging about as an unofficial extra.
▪ P.C. Clifford and the other uniformed constable lent a hand in getting the stretcher with its heavy burden up the steps.
guard
▪ From behind the wire fencing, a uniformed guard eyes us with binoculars.
▪ There were two uniformed guards outside the building.
▪ The desk and its uniformed guard were just ahead.
▪ The best-class rubbish is found at the gates of high-walled mansions, their privacy protected by barking Alsatians and uniformed guards.
man
▪ She'd been sitting on the edge of the bed when they'd arrived, two large uniformed men.
▪ The uniformed men asked to see papers, and Pastor Braun, who carried a ledger with him, interceded for inmates.
▪ We had observed a uniformed man standing there, on the inside.
▪ A uniformed man, there to ward off sightseers, saluted.
▪ He told the operator where he was, what he had found, and asked for two more uniformed men.
▪ They were uniformed men, closing in on Tess with slow purposeful steps.
▪ Two uniformed men were on their hands and knees, brushing at the carpet with their fingers.
▪ As the people opened their doors and windows, they saw several uniformed men with four cannons.
officer
▪ We recruit uniformed officers into plain clothes so that people like yourself, who are being eliminated, won't feel under pressure.
▪ A team of around 30 detectives and uniformed officers has been working on the inquiry.
▪ That means that we have even fewer uniformed officers on our streets because they have to do civilian tasks such as manning telephones.
▪ He'd been shown to the interview room where Scott sat with a uniformed officer close by the door.
policeman
▪ A uniformed policeman stood under a lamp, his hands clasped behind his back.
▪ She was followed out on to the patio by a fresh-faced, uniformed policeman.
▪ Opening the front door of the flat, she came face to face with an out-of-breath uniformed policeman.
▪ He had been too engrossed in the anguish of his own thoughts to notice the approach of the two uniformed policemen.
▪ A uniformed policeman gave me detailed directions and along with several others I made my way to Court No. 4.
▪ Several more uniformed policemen came in.
▪ He knew that Buddie hated all detectives and uniformed policemen.
▪ The door was bolted but Wycliffe banged on it and was admitted by a uniformed policeman.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a uniformed guard
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A uniformed doorman smiled in welcome and confirmed Miss van Ryneveld was expecting her.
▪ But that was the uniformed branch's pigeon, not his.
▪ Cops happened by, two casual burly uniformed cops.
▪ He told the operator where he was, what he had found, and asked for two more uniformed men.
▪ However, the uniformed, sixteen-legged crocodile was an easy target for ridicule.
▪ Opening the front door of the flat, she came face to face with an out-of-breath uniformed policeman.
▪ Other uniformed staff have moved to new Portacabin.
▪ They declared: ... were involuntary witnesses of wholly unnecessary violence inflicted by uniformed Blackshirts on interrupters.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
uniformed

clothed \clothed\ adj.

  1. wearing clothing. [Narrower terms: adorned(predicate), bedecked(predicate), decked(predicate), decked out(predicate); appareled, attired, clad, dressed, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed; arrayed, panoplied; breeched, pantalooned, trousered; bundled-up; caparisoned; cassocked: costumed: decent] [Narrower terms: dight] [Narrower terms: dressed-up, dressed to the nines(predicate), dressed to kill(predicate), dolled up, spruced up, spiffed up] [Narrower terms: heavy-coated] [Narrower terms: overdressed] [Narrower terms: petticoated] [Narrower terms: red-coated, lobster-backed] [Narrower terms: surpliced] [Narrower terms: togged dressed esp in smart clothes)] [Narrower terms: turned out] [Narrower terms: underdressed] [Narrower terms: uniformed] [Narrower terms: vestmented] Also See: adorned, decorated. Antonym: unclothed.

  2. covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak. fog-cloaked meadows

    Syn: cloaked, draped, mantled, wrapped.

Wiktionary
uniformed

a. Describing someone in an occupation that requires a uniform, such as a member of the police force or military.

WordNet
uniformed

adj. dressed in a uniform; "uniformed policemen lined the President's route"

Usage examples of "uniformed".

Blue uniformed guards saluted Myrhini as she and Alec rode under a heavy portcullis and onto the palace grounds.

Commander ha Bem spoke to the two neatly uniformed guards standing before it, and the little party was admitted instantly.

Grijalva cast a quick glance at the tall, uniformed figure pacing the morning room of her little caza in the best part of Meya Suerta.

By the time we pulled up to the right building, Q-Ball and Cher were exiting their cruisers aided by their uniformed chaperones.

Shamarr Dickin touched the arm of one of the uniformed Sentinels beside him.

There were uniformed Guards from Donnybrook and Harcourt Street up and down the banks now.

Although many members of the drafting committee were uniformed personnel, none were professional military men or women.

She and her uniformed dukeling were at the water counter, receiving their first glasses.

Edge, Autumn, ex-Troop Sergeant Yount and equestriennes Clover Lee and Monday sat, among a number of other and presumably noble spectators, in the pillared gallery above the acre of tanbark riding area, while a string orchestra in the loggia played and eight gorgeously uniformed officers put their eight extraordinary stallions through their extraordinary paces.

Its head, enveloped in unfettered strands of gold-colored keratin, hung toward the floor from the flexible neck while each of its soft, pulpy arms dangled on either side of a scaly, uniformed shoulder.

As they approached a quiet, intimate table, Layne noticed that Matt was the only uniformed guest.

Donaldson and Flaherty entered the offices of Brantley and Lemke, the secretary was drinking a glass of water offered her by the uniformed police officer, while Brantley was sitting disconsolately in one of the reception room chairs.

A uniformed man was standing in a doorway, a saffer dangling from his right hand.

Half a dozen police cars were in the outside, and uniformed cops were the sidewalks, walkie-talkies in their stopping people and asking them He had never seen so many cops in except that time when he was still living in Harlem, and a spic was holed an apartment in Spanish Harlem, between Park and Madison.

Tor gasped the word, her last uji The door burst open and her vision filled with fluid blue: the room filling with half a dozen uniformed police.