- a variation of watch list.
watchlist
Britishnoun
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a list of things to be monitored, esp in order to prevent loss, damage, etc
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a list of people or organizations to be kept under surveillance, esp because they are suspected of wrongdoing
terrorist watchlist
Example Sentences
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Included on the watchlist are the sites that are currently being cleared up by the EA at Hoads Wood, in Kent, and Kidlington, in Oxfordshire.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
A total of 24 children are now on a "watchlist" and officers are using dispersal notices to ban troublemakers from the city centre.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
If you are reluctant to take the tax hit now, keep the idea on a watchlist for the next stock-market selloff.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026
Private credit markets are on that watchlist, he said, though he sees no signs yet of the kind of contagion that would threaten the system at large.
From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026
He wasn’t on a watchlist, according to the prime minister.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025
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