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watchlist

UK/ˈwɒt͡ʃˌlɪst//ˈwɔt͡ʃˌlɪst/

watchlist noun: a list of people or things that are assigned to receive special attention or monitoring.

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.
    • The TSA provides the airlines with the “No Fly” and “Automatic Selectee” watchlists for use in identifying passengers who are to be denied boarding or who require additional scrutiny prior to boarding. The “No Fly” watchlist is a list of persons who are considered a direct threat to U.S. civil...2010, William J. Krouse, Terrorist Watchlist Checks and Air Passenger Prescreening, page 11

Verb

watchlist (third-person singular simple present watchlists, present participle watchlisting, simple past and past participle watchlisted)

  1. (transitive) To add to a watchlist.

watchlist meaning in Kannada, Arabic, Malay and Persian

watchlist in Kannada

ನೋಡುಪಟ್ಟಿ, ಗಮನಪಟ್ಟಿ

watchlist in Arabic

list for special attention
قَائِمَةُ مُرَاقَبَةٍ qāʔimatu murāqabatin

watchlist in Malay

list for special attention
senarai pantau

watchlist in Persian

list for special attention
فهرست پیگیری fehrest-e pey-giri

Forms of watchlist

Noun
pluralwatchlists
alternative formwatch list
Verb
third-person singular presentwatchlists
present participlewatchlisting
past participlewatchlisted
pastwatchlisted

Origin of watchlist

From watch + list.

Questions about watchlist

What does watchlist mean?
Watchlist means a list of people or things that are assigned to receive special attention or monitoring.
What is watchlist in Kannada?
Watchlist in Kannada is ನೋಡುಪಟ್ಟಿ, ಗಮನಪಟ್ಟಿ. See Watchlist meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is watchlist?
Watchlist can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce watchlist?
Watchlist is pronounced /ˈwɔt͡ʃˌlɪst/ (US).
What is the plural of watchlist?
The plural of watchlist is watchlists.

Words near watchlist in the dictionary

  1. watchless
  2. watchlessness
  3. watchlight
  4. watchlights
  5. watchlike
  6. watchlist
  7. watchlisted
  8. watchlisting
  9. watchlists
  10. watchmaker
  11. watchmaker's

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: watchlist (page history and authors); watchlist (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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