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watch list

watch list is the alternative spelling of watchlist.

Meaning of watchlist

Noun

watchlist (plural watchlists)

  1. A list of people or things that are assigned to receive special attention or monitoring.
    • The police have hundreds of citizens on their watchlists.

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Forms of watch list

pluralwatch lists

Questions about watch list

What is watch list the alternative spelling of?
Watch list is the alternative spelling of watchlist.

Words near watch list in the dictionary

  1. watch house
  2. watch houses
  3. watch in two
  4. watch it
  5. watch like a hawk
  6. watch list
  7. watch lists
  8. watch meeting
  9. watch meetings
  10. watch night
  11. watch nights

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Adapted from Wiktionary: watch list (page history and authors); watchlist (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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