- a person who watches or who keeps watch.
- an analytic observer of trends, fashions, events, celebrities, or the like: Fashion watchers will have noted that pleats have become popular again.
- a professional or experienced observer and analyst of political and historic trends and events, countries, or the like: China watchers in the State Department predict a change in that country's trade policy.
- poll watcher.
- a person who watches
- a person who maintains a vigil at the bedside of an invalid
- a representative of a candidate or party stationed at a poll on election day to watch out for fraud
