watchlist
Speech parts
1. watchlist - Noun
2. watchlist - Verb
Meaning
watchlist (plural watchlists)
A list of people or things that are to receive special attention or monitoring.
The police have hundreds of citizens on their watchlists.
watchlist (third-person singular simple present watchlists, present participle watchlisting, simple past and past participle watchlisted)
(transitive) To add to a watchlist.
Examples
Although a very limited redress procedure has been added for those who have been incorrectly placed on the list, the entire watchlist remains a due process disaster.
Darmanin said that 66 of 231 foreigners on a watchlist had been expelled, around 50 others had been put in migrant detention centres and a further 30 had been placed under house arrest.
Intelligence leads Mihdhar was placed on a CIA watchlist on August 21, 2001, and a note was sent on August 23 to the Department of State and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) suggesting that Mihdhar and Hazmi be added to their watchlists.
Merced County, where the sheriff questioned the pandemic and a town became a ‘sanctuary city for business,’ is now on the state watchlist after a surge in COVID-19 cases.
Add it to your watchlist today!
Forward Tres Tinkle – who was named to the preseason watchlist for the Naismith Player of the Year Award in November – was averaging 19.7 points per game entering the matchup with the Bruins.