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warden

/wawr-dn/US // ˈwɔr dn //UK // (ˈwɔːdən) //

典狱长,监狱长,监管人,监护人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person charged with the care or custody of persons, animals, or things; keeper.
    • : the chief administrative officer in charge of a prison.
    • : any of various public officials charged with superintendence, as over a port or wildlife.
    • : air-raid warden.
    • : firewarden.
    • : the chief executive officer of a borough.
    • : the principal official in a region, town, etc.
    • : British.a traditional title of the president or governor of certain schools and colleges: Warden of Merton College.a member of a livery company of the City of London.
    • : Canadian. the head of certain county or local councils.
    • : a member of the governing body of a guild.
    • : a churchwarden.
    • : a gatekeeper.

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Examples

  • The warden denied the grievances, because they’d been filed as emergencies, and he disagreed with the classification.

  • As of the most recent 2018 data, 70% of its senior leadership is male, and only just over 15% is nonwhite—neither number anywhere close to Warden’s goal of a team that reflects the population.

  • Warden also realized communication would be essential, and she says that for five months she wrote a weekly update to the entire company, covering what it was doing, specifically in response to the coronavirus.

  • Warden acknowledges Northrop Grumman has a long way to go to create a representative team.

  • When it came to handling the crisis, Warden says she discovered diversity was a major edge for Northrop Grumman.

  • As in most prisons, the “trusty” was a convict the warden trusted and thus had special privileges.

  • The Dutchman was transferred in August when he allegedly threatened to kill the prison warden.

  • Prison guards in Lima found a contraband mobile phone in his prison cell that he claimed was given to him by the warden.

  • No warden in my position would like something like this to happen.

  • The backlash and bad publicity from the escape is much more than the warden ever wanted, but he will have to deal with it.

  • She lived in some big town out West, and when her mother died there was no one left to her but Luther Warden, her uncle.

  • On his departure from the Alcazar, the warden thought it prudent to send a person to observe his movements.

  • "Soldiers, attend the Marquis de Montemar to the gates," coldly replied the warden.

  • He hoped to hear that melody again, when Mr. Warden had finished the story of the brave missionary of Ballerraderad.

  • Warden's was the nearest house, but that was a mile from the clearing, and in the woods our progress was slow.