day watch
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3.7
- noun
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turno de día
- As for Streebek and me, we're back on day watch at Robbery-Homicide, where he still exhibits a blatant disregard for departmental procedure.
Examples
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We were working the day watch out of Intelligence Division.
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Make sure day watch didn't leave behind any surprises for us.
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I was working day watch out of Robbery-Homicide at the same desk my late Uncle Joe occupied when he served with the department 20 years ago.
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You're gonna end up doing West End Valley day watch, spending two hours every day on the fucking freeway just thinking about the fucking that they gave you.
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Outside in the warm April sunshine, two uniforms—the entire day watch in our little town—were canvassing the merchants up and down the street.
Fiction book (1998) -
The officer on the day watch reported the incident to his supervisor promptly.
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During the day watch, the team focused on community outreach and public safety.
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Each member of the day watch is responsible for patrolling the area until their shift ends.
Synonyms
442
4.2
A time when people stay awake to guard or look for danger
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2.2
A period of work during the day, usually from morning to afternoon, or the workers who work then
Antonyms
How Late
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a group of workers assigned to work during the daytime' is directly and compositionally derived from 'day' (the daytime period) + 'watch' (a scheduled period or team on duty). This is a common pattern (day/night watch or day shift) and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would reliably infer the meaning.
Etymology
Day watch comes from a simple picture: a team who watch or guard during the day. So it now means 'a team of workers on the daytime shift'.