A uniformed official employed to locate and report on infringements of parking regulations.
〈英〉交通监督员(着制服、负责巡查并报告违章停车行为的管理人员)
Example sentencesExamples
There was an altercation outside between a fellow who had parked illegally and a traffic warden.
Residents awoke on Bank Holiday Monday morning to discover the traffic warden had gone down the street, before 9am, issuing the tickets.
An amateur snapper couldn't believe his eyes when he spotted a traffic warden parking on double yellow lines to issue a ticket.
They count a chef, a traffic warden, a prison custody officer and a bank clerk among their number.
I parked illegally and asked a traffic warden on patrol if I could leave it there for a couple of minutes.
On arrival my Dad struggled to explain to a traffic warden that he did have to park here thank you, and that hundreds of other parents would be doing so imminently.
There is even a traffic warden controlled area where pupils who do not park their tricycles and other play vehicles properly get parking tickets.
I noticed a traffic warden booking a car for parking illegally in a disabled parking bay.
A traffic warden gave him a ticket when he parked there himself.
But when he went back to his van, he found a traffic warden had handed him a £30 ticket for parking illegally in the street.
In the Kennet district the traffic warden is employed by the police but under a contract with Kennet which pays the costs of the service.
The traffic warden was still there chatting to someone parked in the loading only bay.
Great I thought - that will please the traffic warden.
He said there was no problem while a traffic warden made regular patrols, but he had not seen one since Christmas.
But a traffic warden, randomly checking roads in Chessington on Good Friday, slapped four tickets on to cars belonging to residents.
But then came the traffic warden who, like the child who always has to spoil things, slapped a ticket on the ‘waiting’ car.
She said she thought the traffic warden was picking on her because she appeared able but had parked where only disabled permit-holders were allowed.
The traffic warden was hardly ever here but if he's not here at all it will be ridiculous.
A traffic warden's job is, after all, a vital one.
I'd parked on Saville Street, in Malton, and had completely forgotten I was interviewing a traffic warden later that day.