lookout:
(plural: ‘lookouts‘; pronunciation: ‘look…out’)
a person who keeps watch, especially on a ship, and also at a check-post or military post,
a lone lookout at a military lookout post
e.g.
After serving as a lookout at the military base and retiring from the Army, Johnson volunteered to be a fire lookout and served until his health prevented him from continuing his service.
Though being a lookout is boring and scary at times, some people take pride in being lookouts on ships and on fire lookout towers.
Unlike the lookouts during WW II who used their eyes, ears and nose to detect any unwanted enemy presence, the modern day lookouts use ultramodern equipment to monitor their surroundings staying comfortably inside their closed lookout towers.
For an article about the duties of a ship’s lookout, please click here, for an article about the duties of fire lookouts in the USA, please click here, for an article that discusses how lookouts use technology in doing their jobs, please click here and for an article that shows us how some people pride themselves for being lookouts in very remote places, please click here.
For an informative article that explains what a ‘lookout tower’ is, please click here.
For an informative article that explains what a ‘lookout tower’ is, please click here.
Note: ‘Lookout’ is more commonly used to refer to the act of watching or searching for something or someone, and for a good position for someone to watch or observe something, usually secretly, and also, mostly in British usage and in the phrase “on the lookout”, for someone’s worry or concern. “Look out”, two word expression, on the other hand, is used as a warning to mean ” to be watchful to be careful”, e.g. “Look out! Our environment is polluting at a fast rate.” “The two friends looked out for each other on their hiking trip in the woods.”
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