plainclothes
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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In 1999, plainclothes police raided a student dormitory following a demonstration, triggering days of mass protests.
Plainclothes security officers guard the detention center, a Ministry of Social Affairs office building in Yaoundé, the capital of the Central African country.
An immigration court dropped its case against Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, her lawyers said, a little less than a year after masked federal agents in plainclothes arrested her on a street near Tufts University.
According to news site Der Spiegel the search in Frankfurt involved around 30 plainclothes investigators.
From Barron's
"For example, the faces, voices, and names of undercover officers conducting operations in plainclothes are not obscured," the complaint alleges.
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