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单词 sheriff
释义
sheriff
noun[C]
uk
/ˈʃer.ɪf/us
/ˈʃer.ɪf/
in the US, anofficialwhosejobis to be inchargeofperformingtheordersof thelawcourtsand makingcertainthat thelawsareobeyedwithin aparticularcounty
（美国的）县治安官
inEnglandandWales, apersonwhorepresentsthekingorqueenin aparticularcounty, and whosedutiesaremainlyinofficialceremonies
（英格兰和威尔士的）郡长
the mostimportantjudgeof acountyinScotland
（苏格兰的）郡法官
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People in charge of or controlling other people
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(Definition ofsherifffrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

sheriff| American Dictionary

sheriff
noun[C]
us
/ˈʃer·əf/
anelectedlawofficerin acounty(= anareaoflocalgovernment)
(Definition ofsherifffrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsheriff

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Circular letters were dispatched to the high sheriffs of all counties, requesting information on all convicts under sentence of transportation who were still in their care.
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There the king forbade anyone to do the abbot any injustice (unriht); here the king orders the sheriffs to use their position to stop anyone from doing him injustice (iniusticia).
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Politics, in this view, is strategic interaction amongst self-interested agents in institutional contexts with no external enforcement mechanism (like sheriffs and courts in an economic contracting setting).
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During a sequence of leapfrogging justice extending over five years, the respective duties of sheriffs, marshals, court clerks, federal commissioners, and judges would all become issues of litigation.
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He made them sheriffs and parish judges.
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Capital punishment plays an important role in state politics ; all serious politicians, judges and sheriffs seeking election or re-election do so on a pro-capital punishment platform.
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No decision has yet been made on the issue of the accountability of high sheriffs, under sheriffs and sheriff's officers.
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In addition, sheriffs undertook judicial business in chambers.
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There is the matter of the relationship between the clerks and the judges and the sheriffs.
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I have no doubt that the vast majority of sheriffs are manifestly sane and would not want to put themselves in that position.
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No, because honorary sheriffs do not get paid.
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The appointment of honorary sheriffs is not my responsibility.
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We intend to retain a distribution of enforcement business between bailiffs and sheriffs broadly as at present.
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They might be sheriff's officers or other bailiffs.
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Why did not armies of tipstaffs, bailiffs, sheriffs and process servers go round the pit villages to try to bring about a settlement?
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