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Plainclothes vs Plainclothed - What's the difference?

plainclothes | plainclothed |

As adjectives the difference between plainclothes and plainclothed

is that plainclothes is wearing ordinary civilian clothes instead of a uniform, in order to avoid detection while plainclothed is plainclothes; wearing ordinary clothes instead of a uniform in order to avoid detection.

As a noun plainclothes

is ordinary civilian clothes, rather than uniform.

plainclothes

English

Adjective

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

    • Noun

    (-)
  • Ordinary civilian clothes, rather than uniform.

    • Synonyms

    * mufti (UK)

    plainclothed

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • plainclothes; wearing ordinary clothes instead of a uniform in order to avoid detection.