watchword
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- : a word or short phrase to be communicated, on challenge, to a sentinel or guard; password or countersign.
- : a word or phrase expressive of a principle or rule of action; slogan: Conservation has been our watchword.
- : a rallying cry of a party, club, team, etc.
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Examples
The public’s safety has always been at the forefront of our minds—safety is our watchword.
The refusal to compromise is a watchword of their candidates who wear it as a badge of pride.
Rather, it seems as though “crony capitalism” is the watchword for this administration.
Especially after the oil crisis, “the watchword was reasonableness.”
Michael Daly on how Ted Kennedy—and even Osama bin Laden—helped the president finally reclaim the watchword that got him elected.
(The term “captology” is acronymically derived from their watchword: Computers As Persuasive Technology).
The watchword of conduct that will clear up all our difficulties is, the plain truth.
The result of this will be that payments back in the customary way can only follow on giving this watchword.
And he himself choose a given private «Watchword» (Losungswort) and inscribe it in the appointed place in the counter-certificate.
If the depositor already has a watchword in connection with his deposit book that watchword is to be inserted.
For sums above 20 florins, the depositor, in case he has no watchword must prove his own identity.