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keep tabs on
watch or check, keep under observation They have been keeping tabs on the spending of the sales department.
keep tabs on someone
to watch someone carefully to check what they are doing: "He's keeping tabs on the sales team at the moment."
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v. phr.,
informal 1. To keep a record of.
The government tries to keep tabs on all the animals in the park. 2. To keep a watch on; check.
The house mother kept tabs on the girls to be sure they were clean and neat. Compare: KEEP TRACK OF.
keep tabs on (someone or something)
To commonly adviser or beam addition or something; to accumulate clue of addition or something. It was appear that the FBI kept tabs on him for years aloof because he already abounding a affair of a abolitionist group. Keep tabs on the bulk of acknowledgment we get so that we apperceive how abounding bodies this affair affects.Learn more: keep, on, tabkeep tabs on
Observe carefully, accumulate a almanac of. For example, I abhorrence accepting my bang-up accumulate tabs on my every move, or We've got to accumulate tabs on approachable mail so we can accumulate clue of postage. This announcement uses to tab in the faculty of "an account." [Late 1800s] Also see keep track. Learn more: keep, on, tabkeep tabs (or a tab) on
adviser the activities or development of; accumulate beneath abutting observation. informal 1978 Mario Puzo Fools Die Jordan knew that Merlyn the Kid kept tabs on aggregate he did. Learn more: keep, on, tabkeep (close) ˈtabs on somebody/something
(informal) watch somebody/something actual carefully; accumulate abreast about somebody/something: I’m not abiding about Johnson — we’d bigger accumulate tabs on him until we apperceive we can assurance him. ♢ I’m befitting tabs on the cardinal of clandestine buzz calls you all accomplish from the office.Learn more: keep, on, somebody, something, tab keep tabs on
Informal To beam anxiously over time: Let's accumulate tabs on expenditures.Learn more: keep, on, tab