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Keep tabs on   /kip tæbz ɑn/   Listen
Keep tabs on

verb
1.
Keep a record on or watch attentively.






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"Keep tabs on" Quotes from Famous Books



... preservation programs already in movement or initiated by this report, and perhaps most of all through aroused and informed public interest. There is room for a broadly based citizens' watchdog organization to keep tabs on Basin affairs and to exert leverage in such critical fields as local planning. It might be formed as a new group or might be built around an existing organization such as the new Potomac Basin Center, whose function has been to comment impartially and intelligently on Basin ...
— The Nation's River - The Department of the Interior Official Report on the Potomac • United States Department of the Interior

... that sort to carry messages," objected Carter. "Maybe you're right. We have not watched him long enough to find out. We've got nothing yet on the young fellow. Maybe he's the real boss of the outfit. At any rate he is the one the Chief is anxious to have you keep tabs on. Are you ...
— The Apartment Next Door • William Andrew Johnston

... see, you hope to keep tabs on our course by ear, when the eye fails us; is that it, Jack?" ...
— Motor Boat Boys Down the Coast - or Through Storm and Stress to Florida • Louis Arundel



Words linked to "Keep tabs on" :   watch over, keep an eye on, observe, watch, follow



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