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plant
noun- a police surveillance action US
- Sitting on a “plant"–what cops on TV call a stakeout–is like looking at a small section of a street under a microscope. — William J. Cavnitz, One Police Plaza, p. 58, 1984
- a cell used for solitary confinement US
- — John R. Armore and Joseph D. Wolfe, Dictionary of Desperation, p. 44, 1976
- an electrical generator US
- — Gene Sorrows, All About Carnivals, p. 24, 1985: “Terminology”
- the equipment and work animals of a drover or other rural worker travelling through the countryside AUSTRALIA, 1867
- Nigger smoke-talks had told him of the patrol and of Felix’s mustering plant. — Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, p. 44, 1947
- The rest of us went on with the pack-horse plant and I did the cooking. — Herb Wharton, Cattle Camp, p. 59, 1994
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