stop-and-search

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A police action of this type.
    — Read literally, he simply ruled that a cop made a bad collar, a stop-and-search without "reasonable suspicion."
形容词 adj.
  1. Of or pertaining to laws or policing practices, found in some jurisdictions, which permit a law enforcement officer to temporarily detain and search a member of the public based on the officer's suspicions.
    — Adding to the department's problems is a long-running controversy over a stop-and-search policy that includes random searches of young black men.

词形变化

stop-and-frisk alternative stop and search alternative stops-and-searches plural stop-and-searches plural stop-and-frisk alternative stop and search alternative
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