もちば

[持ち場] *post

/póust/ 【C】(軍隊・番兵などの)部署， 警戒［巡回］区域∥ at one's post 自分の持ち場で / desert one's post 持場を捨てる

**station

【C】《正式》持ち場， 部署.

▲Everyone was in his ［《NS》their］ place. みんな持ち場についていた.

持ち場
job
station
position
post
route

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もちば【持ち場】

*post

/póust/ 〖C〗(軍隊・番兵などの)部署， 警戒［巡回］区域

at one's post 自分の持ち場で

desert one's post 持場を捨てる

**station

〖C〗《正式》持ち場， 部署.

▲Everyone was in his ［《NS》their］ place. みんな持ち場についていた.

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もちば【持ち場】

1 〔部署〕 one's post; one's station; one's place of duty; (軍艦の) one's quarters.

●持ち場に出かける 〔警官などが〕 start out on one's duties

・最後まで自分の持ち場に踏みとどまる stick to [stand by] one's guns to (the last)

・持ち場につく take one's station; take (up) one's place 《as umpire》; 〔軍艦で〕 go to quarters

・持ち場についている be at one's post

・持ち場についたまま死ぬ die at one's post.

●持ち場を守る keep [hold, stand to] one's post

・持ち場を捨てる[離れる] desert [quit] one's post.

2 〔巡回区〕 one's round; one's beat; one's walk; (配達の) one's route; 〔管轄〕 jurisdiction; 〔受持区〕 one's territory.

●持ち場を回る make [go] one's rounds.

●それは私の(巡回の)持ち場ではない. That is out of my beat.