What's the difference between caretaker and watchman?

Caretaker


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 1943 Konrad Lorenz postulated that certain infantile cues served as releasers for caretaking behaviour in human adults.
  • (2) The parents of caretakers of 85 randomly selected patients were interviewed in the emergency room waiting area.
  • (3) The potential for abuse in the child's caretaker, a child who is somewhat different, and a stressful situation are ingredients which often interact to produce maltreatment.
  • (4) The former midfielder has worked with the club’s academy since 2009 and has now served as caretaker manager on four separate occasions.
  • (5) Under one scenario, a caretaker prime minister would take over until the next national election.
  • (6) Torres departed with Dalglish, Liverpool's caretaker manager, insisting the club were on the rise and could withstand any major loss, just as they did when he replaced Kevin Keegan as a player in 1977 and when he reinvested Ian Rush's transfer fee from Juventus in 1987.
  • (7) In each household, interviews were completed with one adolescent and his or her female caretaker.
  • (8) A witness said he saw Ray Fisher, 75, who was a retired former engineer and caretaker who loved wildlife and bred koi carp, shot twice by Rezgui from a range of about three yards as he sat on a sunlounger.
  • (9) Mandela then returned to Liliesleaf farm, the secret base of the ANC's military wing in Rivonia, Johannesburg, where he wore blue overalls to pose as a caretaker under the alias David Motsamayi.
  • (10) Complications were not reported by any owner or caretaker.
  • (11) When this "skin function" of the caretaking object fails, real skin lesions may follow.
  • (12) He cited the example of the Howard government’s terrorism ads in the 2004 during a caretaker period.
  • (13) Ten games later he becomes Preston’s caretaker manager when Lee Chapman is sacked – but misses out on the full-time job to John Beck.
  • (14) Evidence included photographs and video taken from inside a flat with a hidden camera that had been installed with the help of a caretaker.
  • (15) A system was designed to monitor the air flow through isolation units and to alert animal caretakers in the event of any interruption in air flow.
  • (16) Failure of the caretaker to seek help for the consequences of a band may suggest that the bands were intentionally placed.
  • (17) But despite Chelsea’s defensive lapses this season, neither Mourinho nor his successor Guus Hiddink, the caretaker boss, has fielded Djilobodji in a Premier League game.
  • (18) The compound hood did not perform quite as well when not in use (set aside during infant caretaking) with the nebulizer remaining on.
  • (19) Respondents who had received inadequate help with caretaking responsibilities experienced more intense symptoms of grief subsequent to the death compared with those who reported receiving adequate caretaking support.
  • (20) The club’s former academy head had been widely tipped to replace previous incumbent Darko Milanic, who was in charge for just 32 days, and this permanent appointment follows three separate stints as caretaker manager at Elland Road for the former Barnsley player.

Watchman


Definition:

  • (n.) One set to watch; a person who keeps guard; a guard; a sentinel.
  • (n.) Specifically, one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Saad al-Dawla, the night watchman of the al-Mathaf hotel, said he was sleeping when the commandos came to the beach.
  • (2) When we return from dinner at the ungodly hour of 9.20pm, we have to be let in by the night watchman.
  • (3) When Trayvon Martin was shot to death by an overzealous neighborhood watchman in 2012, no one knew much about the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec) and the kinds of laws they secretly push – including the now-infamous “stand-your-ground” laws that allow Americans to shoot first and ask questions later.
  • (4) How the infection was transmitted to the first victim in the city, a watchman's wife who lived on the outskirts, is more difficult to explain.
  • (5) This paper describes the case of a pregnant 17-19 year old unmarried girl from Kenya who has a primary level education, no definite religion, is unemployed and living with her father, a watchman.
  • (6) Their guiding light is the Gladstonian ideal of a low tax, laissez-faire, "night-watchman state".
  • (7) Ferguson mired in sweeping racial discrimination, federal report finds Read more The same high bar was in place for a two-year investigation into the 2012 killing in Florida of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, by George Zimmerman, a neighbourhood watchman.
  • (8) The first was a teenage boy caught foraging for stale bread in an empty compound whose constantly shifting story suggested to the British that he might have been an insurgent sympathiser or even a "dicker" – a watchman providing a steady stream of intelligence on the movements of foreign forces.
  • (9) As always, this isn't a straightforward equation – a panopticon effect in which we are monitored by a faceless watchman and receive nothing in return.
  • (10) At the morgue entrance a watchman, Wilzor, huddled by a radio listening to upbeat Compas music.
  • (11) Instead the short volume, entitled Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet and published on Monday, is intended to be what the Wikileaks founder calls "a watchman's shout in the night", warning of an imminent threat to all civilisation from "the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen" – the web.
  • (12) The Counted: people killed by police in the United States in 2015 – interactive Read more Clinton invoked several high-profile cases, including that of Trayvon Martin , the Florida teenager who was shot to death in his own neighborhood in 2012 by a self-appointed neighborhood watchman, and Sandra Bland, who was found hanged to death in a Texas county jail cell , three days after a routine traffic stop escalated into physical confrontation.
  • (13) Instead, Britain’s main opposition party resembles a dilapidated warehouse storing heaps of votes behind rusted gates, guarded by a drowsy night watchman.
  • (14) "I was just sitting in my chair when suddenly I heard a huge bang," said a watchman of a nearby hospital who did not want to give his name.
  • (15) Martin was killed by a neighborhood watchman who viewed his presence as “suspicious”.
  • (16) Ah, then there's Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, now The Night Watchman , singing for striking teachers and assailed unions – playing both his own subversions and acquainting young America with the great radical folk canon.
  • (17) The watchman's wife need not have been the first one to catch the infection.
  • (18) The night watchman-like Rhodes in Oxford, by contrast, occupies a crevasse in an Oriel building overlooking High Street, unobtrusively, and insidiously, guarding an always-shut door below him.
  • (19) In a particularly absurd episode, he is chased by a squad car after his random shooting of a busker, commandeers a cab (killing its driver), crashes into a Korean deli, kills a cop who tries to disarm him, escapes from the armed police who seem to have him surrounded, shoots dead a janitor and a night watchman in a nearby building, and (as a Swat team arrives in a helicopter, just too late) sits in his office confessing his crimes ("thirty, forty, a hundred murders") to his lawyer's answering machine.
  • (20) To escape the nuptials, in 1941 he ran away to Johannesburg, where he landed a job as a night watchman guarding the compound entrance of a goldmine.

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