Dictionary entry

Wardress

Pronunciation

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Myanmar Meaning

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Definition

warder /'wↄ:dǝ(r)/ n ( fem wardress /'wↄ:drǝs/) ( Brit ) ေထာင္ၾကပ္။

Examples

  1. ‘A prison warder was called as a witness
  2. to enable Barker to establish the harsh character of solitary confinement in the jail.’
  3. ‘Actors playing warders
  4. who were walking with prisoners
  5. were not allowed to walk past other warders walking with prisoners in the corridor.’
  6. ‘Yet
  7. unaccountably
  8. once he was faced with prisons
  9. prisoners and warders
  10. Balfour stopped entertaining the people.’
  11. ‘‘I am a prison warder in Glenochil but I feel more threatened walking around here at night
  12. ’ he says.’
  13. ‘The Daily Dispatch has learnt that 20 out 24 prison warders in King William's Town took ‘sick leave’.’
  14. ‘A source told the Daily Dispatch that two prison warders heard the siren signalling an escape and drove into West Bank
  15. where they saw two men running and tried to stop them.’
  16. ‘After the war he became a prison warder and served in Mountjoy and Portlaoise Prisons.’
  17. ‘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.’
  18. ‘A warder in a Paris prison lost her sense of smell
  19. taste and the hearing in one ear after she was beaten by an inmate earlier this year.’
  20. ‘However
  21. although Roberts was accompanied by a prison warder to the tournament
  22. he was found to have boxed without a licence.’
  23. ‘The escapees
  24. who were apparently being guarded by three prison warders while the others fought the fire
  25. overpowered them and fled into the surrounding rural areas.’
  26. ‘The first time the army refused and sent him back to prison camp - this time as a warder in the military jail at Barlinnie.’
  27. ‘The inquiry heard how warders handcuffed a prisoner
  28. believed to be a foreign national
  29. to his cell bars
  30. pulled down his trousers and smeared black boot polish onto his buttocks.’
  31. ‘That means any time a prison warder wants to toss a few guys down to some sexually frustrated rapists as part of penal policy
  32. or smash someone's teeth in
  33. he has nothing to worry about.’
  34. ‘It irritated many
  35. myself included
  36. 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.’
  37. ‘It has been revealed that white staff warders handcuffed a prisoner to his cell bars
  38. pulled down his trousers and smeared black boot polish on his buttock
  39. in a racially motivated attack.’
  40. ‘This prisoner
  41. a former policeman
  42. was allegedly helping prison warders draw up false statements for submission to the commission
  43. Barlow said.’
  44. ‘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.’
  45. ‘Hofmeyr said the current investigation showed prison warders had received kickbacks from certain doctors for false claims against the medical aid fund.’
  46. ‘It's not a name which trips easily off the tongue
  47. unless
  48. of course
  49. you happen to be a warder in a Singapore prison.’