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watchdog

/woch-dawg, -dog/US // ˈwɒtʃˌdɔg, -ˌdɒg //UK // (ˈwɒtʃˌdɒɡ) //

看门狗,监视者,看门人,观察者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a dog kept to guard property.
    • : a watchful guardian: a self-appointed watchdog of the public morals.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or characteristic of a watchdog.
    • : organized or functioning as a watchful guardian, especially against illegal or unethical conduct: a watchdog group in the legislature.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    watch·dogged, watch·dog·ging.

    • : to watch carefully, especially so as to detect illegal or unethical conduct.

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Examples

  • There was no point at which Facebook or Twitter was becoming the watchdog.

  • Also Wednesday, Europe’s longest-running and perhaps most important tech privacy case—also involving Facebook—began heading for a resolution after the Irish watchdog agreed to stop dragging it out.

  • “The money simply falls through a trap door without oversight from regulators and consumer watchdogs,” said Mike Dark, a lawyer with the nonprofit California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform.

  • Government watchdogs have criticized Boeing, the prime contractor, for poor performance and NASA for lax oversight.

  • Ant’s top executives are part of a task force that already has almost daily interactions with watchdogs.

  • He charged his trusted advisor Yitzhak Molcho to act as a watchdog to prevent any progress.

  • According to the watchdog group, this systemic abuse has led to hundreds of political prisoners being detained across the country.

  • One watchdog group reported shortages of ballots, technical problems, and ballot stuffing.

  • The familiar notion of the press as a watchdog for government only arose much later.

  • Thankfully, a watchdog group of unskewers at the Science Media Centre examined the actual facts.

  • In reality, each boy is an unpaid pion, a watchdog whose vigilance never relaxes.

  • In his capacity as the Swifts' business manager, he had earned the nickname "watchdog of the treasury."

  • Curumilla lay down without saying a word, like a good watchdog, across the door of the lodge inhabited by Doa Clara.

  • The second-man was standing before the library door with folded arms and a watchdog expression on his cockney face.

  • He stabled Fox and Peanut, then went to the kitchen where Chappo, like a faithful old watchdog, was dozing beside the stove.