WordNet
listening watch
n. a watch established for the reception of traffic of interest to the unit maintaining the watch [syn: continuous receiver watch]
Usage examples of "listening watch".
The community had a jury-rigged, low-power radio on which a constant listening watch was kept, but which was rarely used for transmission because of the danger of detection.
Sergeant Cunha could take the squad at the crater and leave Naidi free to supervise the ground-listening watch.
Although McCready could not know it, the SSD listening watch had already got as far as the Leipzig area when the connection was severed.