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- noun Plural form of
watchstander .
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Examples
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These furloughs will take away the TWC's ability to upgrade tsunami models and will put considerable stress on watchstanders ability to react.
Carl Pope: What Are They Thinking? Carl Pope 2011
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These furloughs will take away the TWC's ability to upgrade tsunami models and will put considerable stress on watchstanders ability to react.
Carl Pope: What Are They Thinking? Carl Pope 2011
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Supervises the conning officer and other underway watchstanders.
Terror At Dawn Douglass, Keith 2003
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He had been briefed on security measures, but had forgotten that not everyone on the ship, not even all the Combat watchstanders, knew what was going on.
Hellfire Douglass, Keith 2002
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Supervises the conning officer and other under-way watchstanders.
Hellfire Douglass, Keith 2002
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Supervises the conning officer and other underway watchstanders.
Joint Operations Douglass, Keith 2000
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Supervises the conning officer and other underway watchstanders.
Typhoon Season Douglass, Keith 2000
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The watchstanders on the traders yell their warnings, barely audible above the crash of thunder and the violence of the storm.
The Towers of the Sunset Modesitt, L. E. 1992
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Westhause and the Commander are the only watchstanders left in Ops. I can't hear anything from Engineering, but some-body is holding out.
Passage at Arms Cook, Glen 1985
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After noting the watchstanders, he went to the starboard wing-he did not sense the rain-and waved to Karen.
The Heirs of Babylon Cook, Glen 1972
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