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  • noun Plural form of watchstander.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • Supervises the conning officer and other underway watchstanders.

    Terror At Dawn Douglass, Keith 2003

  • 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

  • Supervises the conning officer and other under-way watchstanders.

    Hellfire Douglass, Keith 2002

  • Supervises the conning officer and other underway watchstanders.

    Joint Operations Douglass, Keith 2000

  • Supervises the conning officer and other underway watchstanders.

    Typhoon Season Douglass, Keith 2000

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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