point duty

1. 1.

   the control of traffic by a policeman stationed at an intersection

   Broadertraffic control

   United Kingdom

Questions about point duty

What does point duty mean?

point duty means "the control of traffic by a policeman stationed at an intersection".

Is point duty a common word?

point duty is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.