Definition of Border patrol

1. Noun. A group of officers who patrol the borders of a country.

Generic synonyms: Patrol
Member holonyms: Border Patrolman

Lexicographical Neighbors of Border Patrol

borde
bordelaise
bordello
bordellos
bordels
border
border cells
border district
border molding
border movements
border of uterus
border on
border patrol (current term)
border patrolman
border reivers
border stone
border stones
border tissue movements
bordereau
bordereaux
bordered
bordered on
borderer
borderers
bordering
bordering on
borderland

Literary usage of Border patrol

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Federal Immigration Law Enforcement in the Southwest: Civil Rights Impacts by John F. Dulles (1998)
"10 According to the INS, its duty was expanded in 1925 to patrol the seacoast, and "since then the border patrol has used every means available to fulfill ..."

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