Photofit

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Photofit

(ˈfəʊtəʊˌfɪt)
n
(Law) trademark
a. a method of combining photographs of facial features, hair, etc, into a composite picture of a face: formerly used by the police to trace suspects from witnesses' descriptions
b. (as modifier): a Photofit picture.
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Translations

Photofit

® [ˈfəʊtəʊfɪt] N (Brit) (also Photofit picture) → retrato m robot
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

Photofit®

[ˈfəʊtəʊfɪt] n → portrait-robot mphoto gallery n → galerie f de photos
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

Photofit

® [ˈfəʊtəʊˌfɪt] n → photofit m inv
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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He resembles a photofit of a man said to have been seen with a child in his arms shortly after Madeleine, then aged three, vanished in May 2007.
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So instead of wasting PS200 on every photofit which won't catch anyone, why not spend the money employing an army of Poo Wardens (there are plenty of armchair generals who'll want the job) to take mugshots of the offending owners so THEY can be prosecuted?
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THIS remarkable photofit of the Orkney murder suspect yesterday fuelled calls for an inquiry into why it took 14 years to bring prime suspect Michael Ross to justice.
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