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单词 chief constable
释义
chief constable
noun[Cusually singular]
uk
/ˌtʃiːf ˈkʌn.stə.bəl/us
/ˌtʃiːf ˈkɑːn.stə.bəl/
inBritain, thepoliceofficerinchargeof thepolicein aparticulararea
（英国）地区警察局局长
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(Definition ofchief constablefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
Examples from literature
  • The chief constable then read the statement that the prisoner had made to him.
  • The chief constable was there, and as became a professed detector of crime, he examined everything minutely inside and outside the two huts, but he could not find anything suspicious about either of them.
  • The evidence of the innkeeper and the waiter was a repetition of the story they had told to the chief constable on the preceding day.
  • What he said and what he did was discussed about the township, and the chief constable listened to every report, expecting that some valuable information would accidentally leak out.
  • When I have taken the additional step which completes my investigations, I will go to the chief constable, reconstruct the crime for him as I see it now, and ask him to take action.

Examplesofchief constable

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On another interpretation (the presupposition-denying one), it is denied both that there is achiefconstableand that he arrested three men.
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The only issue was the complement of the constabulary, which was raised by thechiefconstable.
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This would enable thechiefconstableto raise an objection in relation to this kind of problem within a narrow area.
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The efficiency of achiefconstable, and the means by which it is measured, is a matter for the local police authority.
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It is for thechiefconstableto decide how to use the resources at his disposal and how to order his policing.
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A parish constable is different from a special constable, who is at the beck and call of thechiefconstable.
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In a rural area will he have to go off to see the inspector of police or thechiefconstableof the county?
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You may have the case, for instance, of achiefconstablewho can arrest a man in a prohibited area and intern him there.
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Thechiefconstableat present decides, and no one has a word to say in the matter.
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I have no information about any such policy, which would be a matter for thechiefconstable.
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Thechiefconstableis planning to meet these costs from within existing budget by the re-deployment of officers and resources.
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Thechiefconstableis to be congratulated on that achievement.
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Such an inquiry is entirely a matter for thechiefconstable.
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I understand from thechiefconstablethat the police used video cameras at 14 hunt meetings in 1990.
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We should also like to know why thechiefconstablewas not held accountable.
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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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