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watchdog

[woch-dawg, -dog] / ˈwɒtʃˌdɔg, -ˌdɒg /


NOUN
guard dog
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The U.K.’s budget watchdog failed to protect its assessment of measures to be announced by the government from premature access, but didn’t intentionally make the material public, an independent review concluded Monday.

From The Wall Street Journal

The forecaster and watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility, was expected to revise down its estimate for productivity growth.

From BBC

Communications watchdog Ofcom fined the telecoms giant after ruling it failed to protect vulnerable users of the devices, typically elderly and disabled people, during the transition from analogue to digital.

From BBC

"Of course, no solution is likely to be 100 percent effective all of the time," the internet safety watchdog has said.

From Barron's

The budget watchdog’s models, data and assumptions are too important to leave hidden in a bureaucratic ‘black box.’

From The Wall Street Journal