jailer
noun [ C ] (also UK old-fashioned gaoler) uk/ˈdʒeɪ.lər/ us/ˈdʒeɪ.lɚ/
监狱看守
a prison guard
Jailers make hourly safety checks of cells.
She wasn't assertive enough to yell at inmates when she began to work as a jailer.
The gaoler returned with a bowl of stew.
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- Jailers realized he was missing at morning roll call.
- They fear a cell regime would make them vulnerable to abuse by jailers.
- Jailers estimate that more than half of their inmates got into trouble because of alcoholism or drug addiction.
- He sometimes seemed more like her gaoler than her husband.