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Day watch   /deɪ wɑtʃ/   Listen
Day watch

noun
1.
Workers who work during the day (as 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.).  Synonym: day shift.






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"Day watch" Quotes from Famous Books



... Isle of France, when we should get into the latitude of it. The chief mate's complaint terminating in an intermitting fever, I prevailed on him to lie under the tent; and by a plentiful administration of bark and port wine, he became able to keep a day watch. ...
— An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island • John Hunter

... the ship's bell under the break of the forecastle, or "fo'c's'le," as it is pronounced in nautical fashion, was just striking "two bells" in the first day watch. ...
— The Ghost Ship - A Mystery of the Sea • John C. Hutcheson



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