英和和英

語源

prison +‎ guard

名詞

prison guard (複数形 prison guards)

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.
   • 1997, Indiana, Gary, Resentment: A comedy‎^[1], New York: Anchor Books, published 1998, →ISBN, →OL, 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.

   • 1987, Arctos: Acta philologica fennica‎^[2], 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.

   • 2011, Barasc, Marc Ian, The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness‎^[3], San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, →ISBN:

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

同意語

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

名詞

prisonguard (複数形 prisonguards)

1. Alternative form of prison guard
   • 1987, 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.

   • 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.

   • 2009, 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.