watchlisting

Adding to surveillance

Watchlisting is the practice of adding someone or something to a watchlist—a registry of individuals, entities, or items flagged for monitoring or scrutiny.

The term appears most often in security and financial contexts: The bank's watchlisting procedures flag suspicious accounts, His name came up during routine watchlisting.

Government agencies engage in watchlisting of suspected terrorists; compliance departments watchlist transactions that trigger alerts.

monitoring

tracking

Monitoring location over time

surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
flaggingLosing vigor progressively
alertingGiving urgent notice

screening · oversight · review · inspection · audit · verification · compliance · reporting · notification · shortlist

security

blacklist

Record of prohibited entities

vettingEvaluating suitability through investigation
counterterrorismCombating organized political violence
debarmentFormal exclusion from privilege

proscription · embargo · credentialing · flagging · suspected · designated · OFAC · interdiction

entertainment

queue

Ordered waiting line

playlistArranged media collection
bookmarkLocation saver for pages
favoritesMost preferred choices

streaming · backlog · recommendations · catalog · library · saved · later · subscription · binge · IMDb

investment

portfolio

Collected works or assets

tickerInformal term for heart
securitiesTradeable financial assets
holdingsProperty one owns

equities · position · shares · trading · brokerage

Opposites

surveillance status

watchlistingclearing

Treeless space in forest

delisting · whitelisting · exonerating · expunging · deregistering

attention/priority

watchlistingignoring

Deliberately not noticing

disregarding · dismissing · overlooking · deprioritizing · neglecting

Family

watch, list, lists, listing, listed, enlist, enlisted, unlisted, enlisting

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