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Noun: prison officer
Usage: Brit (N. Amer: prison guard)
  1. Someone who guards prisoners
    "The prison officer patrolled the cellblock during his night shift";
    - prison guard, jailer, jailor, gaoler [Brit], screw [informal], turnkey [archaic], kanga [Austral, informal], prison warder [Brit]

Derived forms: prison officers

Type of: keeper, law officer, peace officer

Encyclopedia: Prison officer