watchdog 的 3 个定义
- a dog kept to guard property.
- a watchful guardian: a self-appointed watchdog of the public morals.
- 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.
watch·dogged, watch·dog·ging.
- to watch carefully, especially so as to detect illegal or unethical conduct.
watchdog 近义词
等同于 monitor
等同于 warden
watchdog 的近义词 21 个
- administrator
- caretaker
- curator
- superintendent
- bodyguard
- custodian
- deacon
- gamekeeper
- governor
- guard
- guardian
- janitor
- keeper
- officer
- overseer
- ranger
- skipper
- dogcatcher
- jailer/jailor
- prison head
- watchkeeper
watchdog 的反义词 1 个
等同于 guard dog
watchdog 的近义词 3 个
等同于 custodian
等同于 guardian
更多watchdog例句
- 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.