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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
neighbourhood watch
noun
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▪ A neighbourhood watch scheme has been established linking each home, where every door and gate is permanently locked against intruders.
▪ In the Croydon area, where neighbourhood watch schemes are strong, burglaries are down.
▪ Mr. Dunn Will my right hon. Friend take time today to congratulate those who are running successful neighbourhood watch schemes in Dartford?
▪ Mr. Vaz I, too, welcome the growth of the neighbourhood watch schemes.
▪ The exhibition included various crime prevention systems both for the home and the car and details of neighbourhood watch.
▪ There are neighbourhood watch schemes and informal baby-minding groups.
▪ Where there is sustained development of neighbourhood watch schemes, there is a sustained decrease in the number of burglaries.
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Neighbourhood Watch (short story)

"Neighbourhood Watch" is a horror short story by the author Greg Egan. It was first published in the Australian sf-magazine Aphelion in 1987, and reprinted in The Year's Best Horror Stories in 1988.

Neighbourhood Watch (United Kingdom)

The Neighbourhood Watch scheme in the United Kingdom is a partnership intended to bring people together to make their communities safer. It involves the po, Community Safety departments of local authorities, other voluntary organisations and individuals and families who ostensibly want to make their neighbourhoods better places to live. It aims to help people protect themselves and their properties and to reduce the fear of crime by means of improved home security, greater vigilance, accurate reporting of suspicious incidents to the police and by fostering a community spirit.

Neighbourhood Watch (Ayckbourn play)

Neighbourhood Watch is a 2011 play by Alan Ayckbourn. It is about a brother and sister who innocently set up a Neighbourhood Watch group following petty crime from a nearby estate, only for the group to go out of control and become an authoritarian force controlling the lives of the people they are supposed to protect.

Usage examples of "neighbourhood watch".

Durbridge, four miles away the police, the Neighbourhood Watch contact.

A spokeswoman from a neighbourhood watch group came on an afternoon phone-in and told the story of how a gang of youths had leapt over fences from garden to garden down her street jumping higher and faster than she thought possible.