noun
English to Korean Dictionary

watchdog Meaning in Korean (watchdog ์˜์–ด ๋œป)

๊ฐ์‹œ๊ฒฌ, ๊ฐ์‹œ์ธ, ๊ฐ์‹œ ๋‹จ์ฒด
์œ ์˜์–ด:๊ฐ์‹œ์ž๊ฐ๋…๊ด€๊ฐ์‹œ ๊ธฐ๊ด€
๊ฐ์‹œ๊ฒฌ in English:watchdog
IPA:kamสƒigjสŒn
Plural: watchdogs
Quick Answer โ€ข ์š”์•ฝ

watchdog์˜ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๋œป์€ ๊ฐ์‹œ๊ฒฌ, ๊ฐ์‹œ์ธ, ๊ฐ์‹œ ๋‹จ์ฒด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ํ™œ๋™์„ ๊ฐ์‹œํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ถˆ๋ฒ•์ ์ด๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋น„์œค๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ํ–‰๋™์„ ๋ฐฉ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ทœ์น™ ์ค€์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋ณด์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ์ฑ…์ž„์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ์กฐ์ง์ด๋‚˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ.)

Usage Note: ์ฃผ๋กœ ๋น„์œ ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋จ. ์›๋ž˜ ๋œป์€ '๊ฒฝ๋น„๊ฒฌ'์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ๋Š” '๊ฐ์‹œํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด๋‚˜ ๋‹จ์ฒด'๋ฅผ ์˜๋ฏธํ•จ.

Definitions of Watchdog

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    noun
    ๊ฐ์‹œ์ธ, ๊ฐ์‹œ ๋‹จ์ฒด

    A watchdog is an organization or person responsible for monitoring the activities of others to prevent illegal or unethical behavior and ensure compliance with rules.

    ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ํ™œ๋™์„ ๊ฐ์‹œํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ถˆ๋ฒ•์ ์ด๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋น„์œค๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ํ–‰๋™์„ ๋ฐฉ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ทœ์น™ ์ค€์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋ณด์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ์ฑ…์ž„์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ์กฐ์ง์ด๋‚˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ.

Example Sentences

business

โ€œThe consumer watchdog group exposed the company's deceptive advertising practices.โ€

์†Œ๋น„์ž ๊ฐ์‹œ ๋‹จ์ฒด๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ๊ธฐ๋งŒ์ ์ธ ๊ด‘๊ณ  ๊ด€ํ–‰์„ ํญ๋กœํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

formal

โ€œEvery democracy needs an independent media to act as a watchdog.โ€

๋ชจ๋“  ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์˜ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฐ์‹œ๊ฒฌ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ•  ๋…๋ฆฝ์ ์ธ ์–ธ๋ก ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค.

business

โ€œThe government established a new financial watchdog to prevent future crises.โ€

์ •๋ถ€๋Š” ํ–ฅํ›„ ์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉ์ง€ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ธˆ์œต ๊ฐ์‹œ ๊ธฐ๊ด€์„ ์„ค๋ฆฝํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Synonyms (์œ ์˜์–ด)

In Korean:

๊ฐ์‹œ์ž๊ฐ๋…๊ด€๊ฐ์‹œ ๊ธฐ๊ด€

Antonyms (๋ฐ˜์˜์–ด)

In Korean:

๋ฌด๊ด€์‹ฌํ•œ ์ž๋ฐฉ๊ด€์ž

In English:

violatoroffender

Inflected Word Forms

past tensewatchdogged
present participlewatchdogging

Phrases & Idiomatic Expressions

act as a watchdogexpression

To monitor and ensure compliance or prevent wrongdoing.

financial watchdogcollocation

An organization that monitors financial institutions and markets.

media watchdogcollocation

An organization that monitors the activities and ethics of the media.

Watchdog Meaning in Korean (๊ฐ์‹œ๊ฒฌ, ๊ฐ์‹œ์ธ) | DictBridge Dictionary