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Patrol Patrolling Verb Soldiers Police Guards Area Building

word patrol
definition
verb
When soldiers, police, or guards patrol an area or building, they move around it in order to make sure that there is no trouble there.
Prison officers continued to patrol the grounds within the jail.
He failed to return from a patrol.
noun
A patrol is a group of soldiers or vehicles that are patrolling an area.
Guerrillas attacked a patrol with hand grenades.
...a border patrol operating near the frontier.
inflections patrolspatrollingpatrolled
cefr-level C1

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