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night watchnoun1A period at night during which a person or group of people is stationed to look out for danger or trouble: a fight broke out during the lieutenant’s night watch...- During this protracted night watch, they employed a camera armed with an enhanced lens to achieve an advanced degree of magnification.
- The center of the new play is an amiably shiftless young man on the night watch as security guard at a generic high-rise.
- The crew on the night watch were busy and Arthur was unable to catch anyone's attention.
1.1A person or group of people stationed to look out for danger or trouble at night: he was the supervisor of a three-man night watch...- Chiefs of villages are told to form night watches.
- Residents were so frightened that they set up a night watch to try to catch the culprit.
- We rely more on our own system, such as having a night watch to monitor the water level.
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