night watchman

noun

: a person whose job is to watch and guard property at night

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George’s odyssey brings him into the orbit of a kind night watchman, Ife (Benjamin Clémentine), responsible for making sure London’s citizens have turned out their lights after dark. Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024 Baker’s is named after Baker Beam, legendary master distiller Booker Noe’s cousin, who started out as a night watchman at the distillery, became a distiller in the 1970s, and retired in 1992—the same year that the Jim Beam Small Batch Collection launched. Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2024 And for the television adaptation, Markiplier would be reprising his role as a night watchman, who attempts to survive a mysterious global crisis where anyone who goes to sleep dies. Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Oct. 2024 At the beginning of her career in New York a few years earlier, Nixon had worked the night shift in the Security Operations Center of Dell’s SecureWorks subsidiary, essentially as the cybersecurity equivalent of a patrolling night watchman. Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023 See all Example Sentences for night watchman 

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“Night watchman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/night%20watchman. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.

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