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Example sentences for: watchman

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Deep inside the Post there's word that despite earlier denials, Switzerland's largest bank yesterday admitted that documents discovered in its shredder room by a night watchman who then disseminated them may in fact have been related to dormant accounts of Holocaust victims.
In Chile, gasfiter has been adopted and is used to mean `plumber'; a `watchman' is wachiman or guachiman ; and I was temporarily baffled by a headline referring to an event taking place at the Guay , which turned out to be nothing more than the `Y[MCA]'!
A great many words in Quechua begin with hua- or gua- (used interchangeably), so when the hacienda owner tells his Indian quachimán to keep a sharp lookout on his nightly rounds, neither may realize that the word derives from watchman . And when Mami is persuaded that daughter needs a new sweater and buys her a chompa , neither may think of the long departed Englishwomen whose jumpers brought the word into the language.
The bank's initial reaction had been to investigate the watchman, Christoph Meili, for violating Swiss banking secrecy rules.
c) chokidar `watchman,' from Hindi cauki `police station' and Persian dar; and