watch list

Or watchlist

noun

1. a list of persons or things to watch for possible action in the future.

   a watch list of possible growth stocks.

Word History and Origins

Origin of watch list¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

The brief stint was impressive enough he was named to the Doak Walker Award watch list before this season.

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She suffered a "difficult transition" and was put on the school's watch list due to the fact her dad had died after being hit by a car while cycling when she was two.

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When we think about what that really meant, what Turning Point actually did was it made a list of people, a watch list of people, called the Professor Watchlist, that lists professors who are not suitably ideologically aligned with Charlie Kirk and his organization.

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But Kirk himself hadn’t been opposed to tapping into political frustrations to accuse people on the left of being dangerous: His organization had, for example, launched an entire “watch list” targeting professors, that used as its justification the idea that conservative students needed protection.

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Neither Gilmer nor any of his teammates made the award’s 47-player preseason watch list, which is based on past performance.

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