checkpoint
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- n a place (as at a frontier) where travellers are stopped for inspection and clearance
- In a culture that forbids male police officers and checkpoint guards to frisk women--yet also frowns on women joining the security forces--many have easy passage to high-value .
- A fifth soldier, who remained at the checkpoint to monitor the radio, said that when the men returned in bloodied clothes, each of them told him not to speak of the incident again.
- In a culture that forbids male policemen or checkpoint guards from frisking women yet also frowns on women joining the security forces many have easy passage to high-value .