plainclothes

See also: plain-clothes and plain clothes

English

Alternative forms

(of adjective) plain-clothes
(of noun) plain clothes

Pronunciation

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Adjective

plainclothes (not comparable)

(usually of a police officer) Wearing ordinary civilian clothes instead of a uniform, in order to avoid detection.

Derived terms

plainclothes man

Translations

wearing civilian clothes

Chinese:
Mandarin: 便服 (zh) (biànfú)
Finnish: siviilipukuinen
French: en civil (fr), en bourgeois (fr), en habit bourgeois (fr)
Hungarian: civil ruhás
Portuguese: à paisana
Russian: в шта́тском (ru) (v štátskom), в гражда́нском (ru) (v graždánskom)
Spanish: de civil, de paisano (es)
Swedish: civilklädd (sv)

Noun

plainclothes (uncountable)

Ordinary civilian clothes, rather than uniform.

Synonyms

mufti (UK)

Translations

ordinary civilian clothes

Chinese:
Mandarin: 便服 (zh) (biànfú)
Finnish: siviiliasu
French: vêtements de ville m pl
Hungarian: civil ruha, civil (hu) (mostly in the term civilben)
Russian: шта́тская оде́жда f (štátskaja odéžda), шта́тское (ru) n (štátskoje), гражда́нская оде́жда n (graždánskaja odéžda), гражда́нское (ru) n (graždánskoje)