Usually means: Guard monitoring safety during nighttime.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. night watchman: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. night watchman: Merriam-Webster
  3. night watchman: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. night watchman: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. night watchman: Collins English Dictionary
  6. night watchman: Vocabulary.com
  7. night-watchman: Wordnik
  8. night watchman: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. night-watchman, night watchman: Wiktionary
  10. night watchman: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. night-watchman, night watchman: Dictionary.com
  12. Night-watchman, The Night Watchman: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. night watchman: Rhymezone
  14. night watchman: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. night watchman: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. night watchman: FreeDictionary.org

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. night watchman: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. night-watchman, night watchman: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (night watchman)

noun:  (historical) Prior to police forces, a person appointed by a town or city to walk the streets at night and guard the burghers from felons and robbers.
noun:  A person who guards (usually at a building) at night.
noun:  (cricket) A lower order batter to play the last overs in low light to save better batters for the next day's play.

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