how to pronounce policeman
/pəˈliːsmən/
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policeman is pronounced in three syllables
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An example use of policeman in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… you know the best policeman the best …”
meaning of policeman
A policeman is a person who is employed by a government to enforce the law.
policeman frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR
the word policeman occurs in english on average 4.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
topics policeman can be related to
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that policeman can be often used in the following areas:
1) business and work;
2) education, science, and technology;
3) people, society, and culture;
4) transport and travel;
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