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A watchdog is an organization or a person whose job is to check that companies, banks, or the government are behaving properly and following the rules — a consumer watchdog protects from unfair business practices. The literal meaning is simpler: a dog kept to guard a house or property.
監督機構；看門狗
組成Watch + dog.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
watchdognoun/ˈwɑːt͡ʃˌdɑːɡ/
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A guard dog.
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An individual or group that monitors the activities of another entity (such as an individual, corporation, non-profit group, or governmental organization) on behalf of the public to ensure that entity does not behave illegally or unethically.
- Governments must "outline how they will reassure passengers that it will be as safe as possible to travel by public transport", according to industry watchdogs Transport Focus and London TravelWatch.
- The UK’s data watchdog is seeking clarification from Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta about parental controls on its popular virtual reality headset, as campaigners warned that it could breach an online children’s safety code.
watchdogverb/ˈwɑːt͡ʃˌdɑːɡ/
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To perform a function analogous to that of a watchdog; to guard and warn.
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businesselectrical-engineeringelectricityTo be continuously reset by a watchdog timer.
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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。