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- Dictionarypatrol/pəˈtrəʊl/
noun
- 1. an expedition to keep watch over an area, especially by guards or police walking or driving around at regular intervals: "we were ordered to investigate on a night patrol" Similar
- 2. a unit of six to eight Scouts or Guides forming part of a troop: "break the Cubs into sixes and Scouts into patrols"
verb
- 1. keep watch over (an area) by regularly walking or travelling around it: "the garrison had to patrol the streets to maintain order"
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the act of checking that there is no trouble or danger in a building or area: a highway patrol.
The meaning of PATROL is the action of traversing a district or beat or of going the rounds along a chain of guards for observation or the maintenance of security. How to use patrol in a sentence.
Patrol definition: (of a police officer, soldier, etc.) to pass along a road, beat, etc., or around or through a specified area in order to maintain order and security.. See examples of PATROL used in a sentence.
PATROL meaning: 1. (especially of soldiers or the police) to go around an area or a building to see if there is any…. Learn more.
When a person or a group monitors a specific area, that's a patrol. A police officer's night patrol might involve walking a beat on certain city streets. A patrol is the activity of watching a neighborhood or region, and also refers to the person or group doing the watching.
Patrol is the action of moving round an area or building in order to make sure that there is no trouble there.
PATROL meaning: 1 : the act of walking or going around or through an area, building, etc., in order to make sure that it is safe the act of patrolling an area; 2 : a group of people, vehicles, etc., that go through an area to make sure that it is safe a group that patrols an area.
