• Dragnet

    Origin

    drag + net

    Full definition of dragnet

    Noun

    dragnet

    (plural dragnets)
    1. A net dragged across the bottom of a body of water.
    2. Heightened efforts by law-enforcement personnel to capture suspects.
      • 2013-07-26, Leo Hickman, How algorithms rule the world, The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives....who, if anyone, is policing their use? Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret the colossal amounts of data it has collected from its covert dragnet of international telecommunications.

    Verb

    1. To make heightened efforts to catch a suspect.

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