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plain clothes
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  • [pleɪn kləuðz]
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Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary

plain clothes [pleɪn kləuðz]
  1. 1. 便服,便衣

Collins English-English Dictionary

plain clothes
  1. 1. pl n ordinary clothes, as distinguished from uniform, as worn by a police detective on duty
  2. 2. pl n (as modifier)
    a plain-clothes policeman

Examples

in plain clothes
[政治ICE] 身穿便服
便衣公安人员
plainclothes public security personnel; public security personnel in plain clothes
当官的应该经常微服私访,了解民情。
Officials should often wear plain clothes to experience and get to know public life.
便衣警察
plain-clothes police

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