uniformed

Thân thiện

Uniformed officers direct traffic at the busy intersection.

Definition

Adjective: * Dressed in a uniform: Wearing the official or standard clothing that identifies a person as a member of a particular organization, such as the police, military, or a service profession.

Usage

The adjective "uniformed" is used to describe a person or group of people who are wearing their official uniform. It is typically placed before the noun it modifies.

Examples

• Adjective:
  • The building's security is provided by uniformed guards.
  • A uniformed officer asked to see my identification.
  • The school requires all uniformed staff to wear their badges visibly.

Advanced Usage

• "the uniformed services": A collective term for the branches of a nation's armed forces and other organized services whose members wear uniforms, such as the police or fire service.
  • He served in the uniformed services for over twenty years.

Variants and Related Words

• Uniform (n): The distinctive clothing itself.
  • She put on her nurse's uniform.
• Uniformed (adj): As defined above.
• Non-uniformed (adj): Not wearing a uniform; wearing civilian clothing.
  • Plainclothes or non-uniformed detectives conducted the surveillance.

Synonyms

• In uniform: An adjectival phrase with the same meaning.
  • All personnel must be in uniform for the inspection.

Antonyms

• Plainclothes: (especially of police) wearing ordinary clothes instead of a uniform.
• Civilian: A person not in the armed services or police; wearing non-official clothing.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. dressed in a uniform
   • uniformed policemen lined the President's route