Dixonian
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Dixon + -ian. From the BBC drama series Dixon of Dock Green.
Adjective edit
Dixonian (not comparable)
- (UK) Pertaining to a traditional form of local policing, focused on officers walking the beat.
- 2003, Frank Leishman, Paul Mason, Policing and the Media: Facts, Fictions and Factions, page 75:
- This was as true in 1974 when Regan first appeared as it is to police dramas in the twenty-first century. Notwithstanding his abrasive, recusant stance, Regan still stood for many of the core Dixonian values championed twenty years earlier.
- 2003, Peter Hitchens, A Brief History of Crime, page 99:
- However, 'nuisance or anti-social behaviour' is a source of grave unhappiness to millions. It is also the very thing that the old Dixonian police force was very good at controlling, discouraging and preventing.
- 2008 November 17, Ken Jones, Evidence to the Communities and Local Government Committee, page 61:
- We have presented a model of policing to the public, a Dixonian model, which is oversimplified. It is about bobbies on the beat and their front police station counter.
Etymology 2 edit
From Alfred Dixon, English mathematician.
Adjective edit
Dixonian (not comparable)
- (mathematics) Of, relating to or formulated by Alfred Dixon.