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# watchdog

noun (watchdogs)

«watchdog» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A watchdog is a dog kept to guard a house or farm and to bark at strangers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watchdog/#m1)
2. A watchdog can also be a person or group whose job is to check that rules are obeyed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watchdog/#m2)

### In the lessons

the guard dog of a farm or house, who keeps thieves and wolves away by barking

### Examples

- Are you taking the place of the watchdog? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watchdog/#x1)
- The dog barked like a real watchdog: «Bow, wow, wow!» [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watchdog/#x2)
- If we had only had a fierce watchdog, he would have kept them away. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watchdog/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «watchdog» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watchdog/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«watchdog» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/watchdog.html) on Mova free.