watchlist

See also: watch list

English

Alternative forms

• watch list

Etymology

From watch +‎ list.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔt͡ʃˌlɪst/

• Audio (US):

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈwɒt͡ʃˌlɪst/

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.

   • 2010, William J. Krouse, Terrorist Watchlist Checks and Air Passenger Prescreening, page 11:

     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 aviation.

Translations

list for special attention

• Arabic: قَائِمَةُ مُرَاقَبَةٍ f (qāʔimatu murāqabatin)
• Armenian: հսկացանկ (hskacʻank)
• Bulgarian: наблюдаваните теми (nabljudavanite temi)
• Catalan: llista de seguiment f
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 監視單／监视单 (kàm-sī-toaⁿ)

  Mandarin: 監視列表／监视列表 (jiānshì lièbiǎo)

• Danish: overvågningsliste
• Dutch: observatielijst f
• Esperanto: atentaro
• Extremaduran: lista e seguimientu f
• Finnish: tarkkailulista (fi)
• French: liste de suivi f, liste de surveillance f
• Galician: lista de vixilancia f
• Georgian: სანახავი სია (sanaxavi sia), დაკვირვების სია (daḳvirvebis sia)
• German: Beobachtungsliste (de) f
• Hebrew: רְשִׁימַת מַעֲקָב f (reshimát ma'akáv)
• Hungarian: figyelőlista (hu)
• Japanese: ウォッチリスト (ja) (wotchirisuto)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: lîsteya şopandinê

• Malay: senarai pantau
• Occitan: lista de seguiment f
• Persian: فهرست پی‌گیری (fehrest-e pey-giri)
• Portuguese: lista de observação f
• Russian: спи́сок наблюде́ния m (spísok nabljudénija)
• Spanish: lista de seguimiento f
• Swedish: bevakningslista (sv) n
• Ukrainian: спи́сок спостере́ження m (spýsok sposteréžennja)

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To add to a watchlist.