Meaning

1 senses
  1. A type of vehicle operated by a police force, usually employed for the transport of prisoners inside a specially adapted cell.

    van used by police to transport prisoners

Examples

4 sentences
  1. The police dusted the van for fingerprints.

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  2. Lukas witnessed the police stopping a van.

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  3. The angry crowd clambered around the police van shouting insults at the suspected paedophile inside it.

    deDie wütende Menge drängte sich an den Polizeiwagen und schrie dem mutmaßlichen Kinderschänder Beleidigungen entgegen.

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  4. At night, the silence is occasionally punctuated by police vans using loudspeakers to broadcast health warnings and advice on preventing transmission.

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Forms

plural: police vans
Singularpolice van
Pluralpolice vans

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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