round-the-clock patrol

1. 1.

   a continuous nonstop patrol

   Broaderpatrol

Questions about round-the-clock patrol

What does round-the-clock patrol mean?

round-the-clock patrol means "a continuous nonstop patrol".

Is round-the-clock patrol a common word?

round-the-clock patrol 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.