Meaning

2 senses
  1. A guard dog.

    a dog trained to guard property

  2. (figuratively)An individual or group that monitors the activities of another entity (such as an individual, corporation, non-profit group, or governmental organization) on behalf of the public to ensure that entity does not behave illegally or unethically.

    контролёрkontroljór

Examples

9 sentences
  1. We need a watchdog.

    Нам потрібен сторожовий собака. — Anjy

    ruНам нужна сторожевая собака. — soweli_Elepanto

  2. Maybe we need to get a watchdog.

    deVielleicht müssen wir uns einen Wachhund zulegen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. Tom threw a piece of meat to the watchdog.

  4. A dog that barks all the time isn't a good watchdog.

  5. Donald was growling like a watchdog.

Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
individual or group that monitors:

Forms

plural: watchdogs
Singularwatchdog
Pluralwatchdogs

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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