0 a person or organization responsible for making certain that companies obey particular standards and do not act illegally:
The Countryside Commission was set up as the government's official watchdog on conservation.
1 a guard dog
2 a person or organization responsible for making certain that companies or other organizations maintain standards and do not act illegally:
a watchdog agency/organization
3 a dog trained to protect a place
4 an official organization that is responsible for checking that companies obey particular rules and laws so that the standard of the products or services they provide is acceptable:
government/independent/official watchdog The government created an independent watchdog to monitor the rising overseas aid budget.
a competition/market watchdog
a watchdog agency/group/organization
Pediatric ethics committees: ethical advisers or legal watchdogs?
To put it differently, politicians behave like old watchdogs returning to their kennels, whereas the media resemble a pack of hounds briefly following the interests of the day.
What you must have is a body that hears the watchdogs barking, takes note of it and then takes some action.
They have always been the watchdogs of the earnings rule.
You cannot expect to protect the fold unless you keep watchdogs.
Our constituents' letters tell us that people consider that those watchdogs have failed, and that they want politicians to do something about the problem.
The outside directors, who should have acted as watchdogs, seem especially worthy of censure.
The watchdogs in the constituencies, the committees of all political parties, know what it is all about.
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