desk sergeant
desk sergeant · desk sergeants
A sergeant who has an administrative position inside of a police stationA sergeant who has an administrative position inside of a police station.
Meaning
1 sensesA sergeant who has an administrative position inside of a police station.
A woman ran into the police station and told the desk sergeant she had been robbed.
the police sergeant on duty in a police station
Forms
plural: desk sergeants| Singular | desk sergeant |
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regular
Synonyms
1 synonymsClose in meaning
- the police sergeant on duty in a police station:station keeper
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.