"watchperson" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From watch + -person.",
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          "ref": "1970 September 26, Renee Blakkan, compiler, “World in Revolution”, in Guardian: Independent Radical Newsweekly, volume 22, number 48, New York, N.Y.: Weekly Guardian Associates, Inc., →ISSN, page 10:",
          "text": "The Marxists had called a strike to demand withdrawal of police and industrial security forces who had replaced regular watchpeople at the state-owned steel plant.",
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          "ref": "1974, Roger W[ellington] Shuy, “Breaking into and out of linguistics”, in Francis P[atrick] Dinneen, editor, Linguistics: Teaching and Interdisciplinary Relations (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1974), Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, →ISBN, page 150:",
          "text": "If we consider it an opportunity, we can try to devise ways of breaking into speech departments with well-trained linguists who will serve as watchpersons against a sudden laying-on-of-hands.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1978 October 18, Steve Kaufman, “Ramblings”, in J[ohn] Hart Clinton, editor, The Post, North County edition, volume 32, number 42, San Mateo, Calif.: Amphlett Printing Company, →OCLC, page 3, column 2:",
          "text": "Enraged at the number of non-seniors occupying this prized space, a group of these graduating seniors decided to form a Senior Patrol. These dedicated watchpeople wear a green armband bearing the initials SP.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1988 February 16, Katherine Bishop, “Latest Japanese Import Goes on Patrol”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "The first syllable, ko, can mean \"to take turns;\" the second syllable, ban, means \"watchperson\" or \"guard.\"",
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        },
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          "ref": "2023, Einat Ambar-Armon, “A New Approach to Community Archaeology in the Israel Antiquities Authority: A View from the Northern Region”, in Rick Bonnie, Marta Lorenzon, Suzie Thomas, editors, Living Communities and Their Archaeologies in the Middle East, Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, →ISBN, section II (Communities: Shared Narratives and Engagement?), page 95:",
          "text": "It was considered that a motivated and involved public would play an active role as ‘watchpeople’, protecting the many imminently endangered archaeological sites around the country.",
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        "One set to watch."
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          "ref": "1970 September 26, Renee Blakkan, compiler, “World in Revolution”, in Guardian: Independent Radical Newsweekly, volume 22, number 48, New York, N.Y.: Weekly Guardian Associates, Inc., →ISSN, page 10:",
          "text": "The Marxists had called a strike to demand withdrawal of police and industrial security forces who had replaced regular watchpeople at the state-owned steel plant.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1974, Roger W[ellington] Shuy, “Breaking into and out of linguistics”, in Francis P[atrick] Dinneen, editor, Linguistics: Teaching and Interdisciplinary Relations (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1974), Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, →ISBN, page 150:",
          "text": "If we consider it an opportunity, we can try to devise ways of breaking into speech departments with well-trained linguists who will serve as watchpersons against a sudden laying-on-of-hands.",
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          "text": "Enraged at the number of non-seniors occupying this prized space, a group of these graduating seniors decided to form a Senior Patrol. These dedicated watchpeople wear a green armband bearing the initials SP.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1988 February 16, Katherine Bishop, “Latest Japanese Import Goes on Patrol”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "The first syllable, ko, can mean \"to take turns;\" the second syllable, ban, means \"watchperson\" or \"guard.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "text": "It was considered that a motivated and involved public would play an active role as ‘watchpeople’, protecting the many imminently endangered archaeological sites around the country.",
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        }
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