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/pəˈtrōl/

noun
- 1. an expedition to keep watch over an area, especially by guards or police walking or driving around at regular intervals: "we were ordered to investigate on a night patrol" Similar vigilguardwatchmonitoringpolicingbeatbeat-poundingpatrollingroundsentry dutyreconnoitersurveillancesurveyexaminationinformal:recce
- ▪ a person or group of people sent to keep watch over an area: "a police patrol stopped the man and searched him"
- ▪ the action of keeping watch over an area by walking or driving around it at regular intervals: "the policemen were on patrol when they were ordered to investigate the incident"
- ▪ a routine operational voyage of a ship or aircraft: "a submarine patrol" Similar patrolman/patrolwomansentinelsentrygarrisondefenderdetailscoutscouting partytask forceescortconvoy
- 2. a unit of six to eight Girl Scouts or Boy Scouts forming part of a troop: "break the Cubs into sixes and Scouts into patrols"
verb
- 1. keep watch over (an area) by regularly walking or traveling around or through it: "the garrison had to patrol the streets to maintain order"
Word Origin mid 17th century (as a noun): from German Patrolle, from French patrouille, from patrouiller ‘paddle in mud’, from patte ‘paw’ + dialect (gad)rouille ‘dirty water’.
Derivatives
- 1. patroller noun
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