Dictionary entry
Warder
Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːdə/
Pronunciation
/ˈwɔːdə/
Myanmar Meaning
ထောင်ကြပ်။
Definition
warder /'wↄ:dǝ(r)/ n ( fem wardress /'wↄ:drǝs/) ( Brit ) ေထာင္ၾကပ္။
Examples
- ‘A prison warder was called as a witness
- to enable Barker to establish the harsh character of solitary confinement in the jail.’
- ‘Actors playing warders
- who were walking with prisoners
- were not allowed to walk past other warders walking with prisoners in the corridor.’
- ‘Yet
- unaccountably
- once he was faced with prisons
- prisoners and warders
- Balfour stopped entertaining the people.’
- ‘‘I am a prison warder in Glenochil but I feel more threatened walking around here at night
- ’ he says.’
- ‘The Daily Dispatch has learnt that 20 out 24 prison warders in King William's Town took ‘sick leave’.’
- ‘A source told the Daily Dispatch that two prison warders heard the siren signalling an escape and drove into West Bank
- where they saw two men running and tried to stop them.’
- ‘After the war he became a prison warder and served in Mountjoy and Portlaoise Prisons.’
- ‘He was one of 10 convicted prisoners who escaped from the prison on June 8 after holding up prison warders at gunpoint and locking them in a cell.’
- ‘A warder in a Paris prison lost her sense of smell
- taste and the hearing in one ear after she was beaten by an inmate earlier this year.’
- ‘However
- although Roberts was accompanied by a prison warder to the tournament
- he was found to have boxed without a licence.’
- ‘The escapees
- who were apparently being guarded by three prison warders while the others fought the fire
- overpowered them and fled into the surrounding rural areas.’
- ‘The first time the army refused and sent him back to prison camp - this time as a warder in the military jail at Barlinnie.’
- ‘The inquiry heard how warders handcuffed a prisoner
- believed to be a foreign national
- to his cell bars
- pulled down his trousers and smeared black boot polish onto his buttocks.’
- ‘That means any time a prison warder wants to toss a few guys down to some sexually frustrated rapists as part of penal policy
- or smash someone's teeth in
- he has nothing to worry about.’
- ‘It irritated many
- myself included
- to hear that the prison warders of Wakefield Jail had been ordered to take off the England flag tie pins they were wearing to raise cash for a cancer charity.’
- ‘It has been revealed that white staff warders handcuffed a prisoner to his cell bars
- pulled down his trousers and smeared black boot polish on his buttock
- in a racially motivated attack.’
- ‘This prisoner
- a former policeman
- was allegedly helping prison warders draw up false statements for submission to the commission
- Barlow said.’
- ‘The commission is expected to dissect the video scene in which a prison warder is apparently seen delivering a juvenile convict to an adult's cell for sex and being paid R20 for his services.’
- ‘Hofmeyr said the current investigation showed prison warders had received kickbacks from certain doctors for false claims against the medical aid fund.’
- ‘It's not a name which trips easily off the tongue
- unless
- of course
- you happen to be a warder in a Singapore prison.’