Advertisement
Advertisement
watch list
noun
- a list of persons or things to watch for possible action in the future:
a watch list of possible growth stocks.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of watch list1
Example Sentences
Intellectual property concerns have landed India on the 'Priority Watch List', for which the report cites weak patent protections and a lack of trade secret laws.
The UK has a new watch list of 24 infectious diseases that could pose the greatest future threat to public health.
“Am I going to be somehow identified as an immigrant that's exploiting federal funding streams and so I would just get deported? I have no idea,” said cell biologist Shumpei Maruyama, an early-career scientist and Japanese immigrant with permanent residency in the U.S., upon seeing his research on the government watch list.
The online rumour mill had identified the attacker as a Muslim asylum seeker who had been on an MI6 watch list.
The suspect is a 37-year-old Algerian who was subject to a deportation order because he was on a terrorism watch list, according to the local prosecutor.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse