adjective
- wearing ordinary clothes rather than a uniform, especially referring to police officers
Usage: typically used before a noun
Examples
- The plainclothes detective blended in with the crowd.
- Several plainclothes officers were stationed around the building.
- She didn’t realize the man was a plainclothes police officer.
- The security team included both uniformed and plainclothes personnel.
- Plainclothes agents monitored the suspect’s movements.
- The plainclothes cop arrested the shoplifter quietly.