Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A system of coordinated procedures for apprehending criminal suspects or other wanted persons.
- noun A net for trawling; a trawl.
- noun A net for catching small game.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A net designed to be drawn on the bottom of a river or pond for taking fish, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A net to be drawn along the bottom of a body of water, as in fishing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A net dragged across the bottom of a body of water.
- noun Heightened efforts by law-enforcement personnel to capture suspects.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths
- noun a system of coordinated measures for apprehending (criminals or other individuals)
Etymologies
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ACLU: FBI used 'dragnet'-style warrantless cell tracking | Privacy Inc.
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The first cast of what Crane aptly termed the dragnet had brought in the management and service staff to a man, with a number of the restaurant's habitues, including Sophie Weringrode and her errand-boy, the exquisite Mr. Revel.
The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf Louis Joseph Vance 1906
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Worse, there are hints that the government uses this secret interpretation to gather what one Patriot-watcher calls a "dragnet" for massive amounts of information on private citizens; the government portrays its data-collection efforts much differently.
Boing Boing Xeni Jardin 2011
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Caught in the dragnet are the handicapped adults who used to line their wheelchairs along a stretch of the boulevard leading to the presidential palace in downtown Dakar.
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EFF sued the government claiming that AT&T and perhaps other telecommunications companies cooperated with it to allow access to people's phone and Internet records -- a so-called dragnet in a search for terrorist communications.
FOXNews.com 2009
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EFF sued the government claiming that AT&T and perhaps other telecommunications companies cooperated with it to allow access to people's phone and Internet records -- a so-called dragnet in a search for terrorist communications.
FOXNews.com 2009
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One of the unlucky thousands caught up in the dragnet was a Daily News reporter assigned to cover the ticket blitz; after getting a call from his editor,
Gothamist 2009
strev commented on the word dragnet
stockings for flamboyant fish
(ha! boyant!)
April 9, 2009