Monitor Monitored Progress Closely Verb Bre ˈmɒnɪtə(R ˈmɑːnɪtər

• each student's progress is closely monitored.
• television advertising is strictly monitored.
• the authorities will continue to monitor the situation.
• the workers are constantly monitored for exposure to radiation.

monitor

1. to watch and check something over a period of time in order to see how it develops, so that you can make any necessary changes
• synonym track
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• Each student's progress is closely monitored.
2. to listen to telephone calls, foreign radio broadcasts, etc. in order to find out information that might be useful

Extra Examples

• Television advertising is strictly monitored.
• The authorities will continue to monitor the situation.
• The workers are constantly monitored for exposure to radiation.
• We will now be able to monitor its progress more closely.
• During the war his job was to monitor enemy radio broadcasts.
• Each student’s progress is closely monitored over the term.
• Foreign observers monitored voting at polling stations around the country.
• The animals’ temperature and heartbeat are regularly monitored.
• The company routinely monitors all its employees’ emails.
• Uniformed and undercover police officers monitored the demonstration closely.
• We need to monitor how the situation develops.
• We were warned by a friend in the government that our phone calls were being monitored.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they monitor
• he / she / it monitors
• past simple monitored
• past participle monitored
• -ing form monitoring

Word Origin

• early 16th cent. (in sense (3)): from Latin, from monit- ‘warned’, from the verb monere. Sense (2) dates from the 1930s.