listening watch

1. 1.

   a watch established for the reception of traffic of interest to the unit maintaining the watch

   Synonymscontinuous receiver watch

   Broaderwatch

Questions about listening watch

What does listening watch mean?

listening watch means "a watch established for the reception of traffic of interest to the unit maintaining the watch".

What is another word for listening watch?

Close synonyms include continuous receiver watch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is listening watch a common word?

listening watch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.