User:Luciferwildcat/prisonguard

English

Alternate forms

• prisonguard

Etymology

prison +‎ guard

Noun

prison guard (plural prisonguards)

1. (law enforcement) An armed person working to provide order, security, discipline, punishment, and prevent escapes of prisoners in a jail that answers to a warden, usually a man
   • 1997, Gary Indiana, Resentment: a comedy, page 170

     And Tietelbaum has been bought and sold so many times by the dark Republican powers that be, look at the prisonguard beating trial and the Ventura County sewer fiasco.

   • Marc Ian Barasc, The Compassionate Life, link

     The Telfaire prisonguard towers rise miragelike in the swampy sunlight like giant mushroom caps on grey concrete stalks.

   • Arctos, Volumnes 21-23, page 29

     During his services as a praetorian, Caesium Verus was twice promoted, first to tubicen (trumpeter), then to optio carceris (camp prisonguard): ordinatus tubicem item optio at carcarem factus est.

Synonyms

• corrections officer, jailer, turnkey, warder, jailor, screw, cop

Translations

Translations

• Spanish: carcelero m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Swedish: fångvaktare c

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