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Meaning of coastguardswoman | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

A female coastguardsman.

Examples

“The coastguardsman was a coastguardswoman. Or maybe I should say coastguardsperson.[…]Reevaluated from the perspective that she was a coastguardswoman, C. L. McCloud could be rated cute, even pretty, possibly beautiful, but that would be going too far before I had more data.[…]I said something nasty about how a teenage punk coastguardswoman from out of the hills couldn’t hide the fact that her ancestors were Irish, too, an’ they probably came over after Culloden Moor an’ left the true church.”
“Last year, the police say, a coastguardswoman, despondent over the death of her mother, was persuaded by a gypsy fortuneteller to turn over thousands of dollars of a “cursed” inheritance.”
“The five thousand residents—four thousand mostly deskbound Coastguardsmen and Coastguardswomen, plus their families—have their own frequent ferry service over to a slip at Battery Park on Manhattan right next to the Staten Island ferry, but they rarely use it unless they have to.”
“At a time, Madam President, when you and I know that in the year 2003, murders were at a record high of 229, kidnappings were over 50 in this country, people are living in fear under the pnm regime, yet still, the Government was unable to complete its recruitment of policemen, policewomen, army personnel, coastguardsmen, coastguardswomen, firefighters and prison officers.”
“It is irresponsible to subject the Coast Guard to a partial shutdown and ask active-duty coastguardsmen and coastguardswomen to work without pay simply to express a hard-headed disagreement with the administration over immigration policy.”
“Our first responders, DHS, coastguardsmen, coastguardswomen, our transportation programs, education, critical healthcare research is all that we will continue to fund through this responsible continuing resolution.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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