watchperson
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]watchperson (plural watchpersons or watchpeople)
- One set to watch.
- Synonym: watcher
- Hyponyms: watchman, watchwoman
- 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:
- 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.
- 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:
- 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.
- 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:
- 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.
- 1988 February 16, Katherine Bishop, “Latest Japanese Import Goes on Patrol”, in The New York Times[1]:
- The first syllable, ko, can mean "to take turns;" the second syllable, ban, means "watchperson" or "guard."
- 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:
- 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.