A person or organisation that monitors the practices of companies to ensure they are nor acting illegally.

also watch-dog, c. 1600, from watch (v.) + dog (n.). Figurative sense is attested by 1845.

a guardian or defender against theft or illegal practices or waste; "she is the global watchdog for human rights abuses" a dog trained to guard property A watchdog timer (or [..]

Definition noun

A watchdog is a device used to protect a system from specific software or hardware failures that may cause the system to stop responding. The application is first registered with the watchdog device. [..]

A manufacturer provided means which independently monitors the Duration of internal hardware functions, and/or Application Program functions, and/or Operating System Software functions, and which will [..]

A software or hardware that determines what should be sent out in case of failure. For example, if dropped frames are detected, the watchdog will react and output certain images instead. The watchdog output can be configured for example, to a color bar image, a black frame or the last played out image.

(n) a guardian or defender against theft or illegal practices or waste(n) a dog trained to guard property

A software or hardware that determines what should be sent out in case of failure. For example, if dropped frames are detected, the watchdog will react and output certain images instead. The watchdog [..]

See Compliance agency

Hardware device that monitors activity with a timer. If the monitored activity ceases for longer than the time period, times out and sets off a alarm or resets the device or reboots the computer.

a guard dog a person or organization that monitors and publicizes the behavior of others (individuals, corporations, governments) to discover undesirable activity.

Groups that oversee practices of those in power for the purposes of holding decision makers accountable to standards or accepted principles, in this case, as it pertains to human rights and sexual and [..]