overwatch

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The agreement supersedes the United Nations mandate for the coalition presence in Iraq, and transfers military operational authority to Iraqi forces with U.S. forces assuming a support, or "overwatch," role.

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  1. To watch to excess.
  2. To exhaust or fatigue by long want of rest. What! thou speak'st drowsily? Poor knave, I blame thee not; thou art o'erwatch'd. Shak., J. C., iv. 3. 241. It hapneth many times that the mother over-watcheth her selfe to spinne, and the father to grow old in gathering a sufficient portion. Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 298.
  3. To watch over; overlook. What must be the ever overwatching of a steeple like that of Wellingborough to a middling town of a dozen thousand people? Art Jour. (London), No. 56, p. 231.
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  • The agreement supersedes the United Nations mandate for the coalition presence in Iraq, and transfers military operational authority to Iraqi forces with U.S. forces assuming a support, or "overwatch," role. —  THE TENSION
  • That was two years before Red had signed up: 'overwatch' had sounded so exciting at the time. —  365 tomorrows
  • Iraqi forces are now leading security operations across Anbar, with American troops in an "overwatch" role. —  Latest Articles
  • Iraqi army supports that, and we're -- we are an outer layer of that, to observe, to assist any way that we can with the security, quick-reaction forces, take all the technologies that we have available, kind of overwatch these sites and provide a safe and secure election. —  GlobalSecurity.org
  • The overwatch (in the US) for their "breaking of the law" should have ended last November. —  Betanews
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  1. Middle English overwacche: see overwatch, v.
 

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