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watchman::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | security guard, watcher |
| Type of | guard |
| Has types | fire watcher, lookout, lookout man, night watchman, patroller, picket, port watcher, portwatcher, watch, spotter, bank guard, scout, sentinel, sentry |
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Voters may decide that a Democratic Congress needs a grumpy Republican watchman.
From the economist.com
Doc was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1920 after murdering a night watchman.
From the en.wikipedia.org
From 2006-2007, he worked as a security watchman in a private security company.
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A watchman still calls the time every hour, from 10pm to 2am, 365 days a year.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
A night watchman state, or a minimal state, has been variously defined by sources.
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Zimmerman, a neighborhood watchman, fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon on Feb.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Even the night watchman on my compound has started his own NGO, looking for funding.
From the guardian.co.uk
He was already resident in Akron, where he worked as a watchman at a rubber company.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
A night-watchman state, or a minimal state, is variously defined by sources.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- A guard who keeps watch
- Watchmen were groups of men, usually authorised by a state, government, or society, to deter criminal activity and provide law enforcement. Watchmen have existed in various guises throughout the world and were generally succeeded by the emergence of formally organised policing.
- Watchman (ISBN 0-75285-915-3) is a 1988 novel written by Ian Rankin, and is one of the author's earliest works. Originally published in 1988, it was reissued with a new introduction by Rankin in 2004.
- The Sony Watchman is a line of portable pocket televisions trademarked and produced by Sony.
- The Watchman was a short-lived periodical established and edited by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1796.
- The Watchman is a 1961 novel by American author Davis Grubb.
- The Watchman is a 2007 detective novel by Robert Crais. It is the eleventh in a series of linked novels centering on the private investigator Elvis Cole's partner Joe Pike. ...
- (The Watchmen) The Watchmen is a Canadian rock band. They were one of the most commercially successful Canadian alternative rock groups of the mid to late 1990s.
- (The Watchmen (novel)) The Watchmen is a novel by John Altman published in 2004.
