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# watchdog

«watchdog» in Mova's school dictionary: **a dog kept to guard a house or farm and to bark at strangers** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (watchdogs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A watchdog is a dog kept to guard a house or farm and to bark at strangers. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watchdog/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watchdog/#x1)
- The dog barked like a real watchdog: «Bow, wow, wow!» [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watchdog/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «watchdog» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watchdog/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.