KEEPTABSON

KEEPTABSON is an English Idiom Lexeme that represents keeping track of something.

AKA: keep tabs on.
Context:
- Word Sense: 'surreptitiously observing'.
- It is a Phrasal Verb.
Example(s):
- “They'll [keep tabs on] him”
- “they [kept tabs on] him”
- “[Tabs were kept on] him”
Counter-Example(s):
- Contrast: “[retain] tabs on”
- Contrast: “[put] tabs on”, e.g. "The teacher put tabs on the children".
- Contrast: “[place] tabs on”, this one also makes some Idiomatic Sense.
- KICKTHEBUCKET, TAKEADVANTAGE.
See: Multiword Expression.

References

(WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=keep%20tabs%20on
- S: (v) keep tabs on (keep a record on or watch attentively) "The government keeps tabs on the dissidents"
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/keep_tabs_on
- 1. (idiomatic) to monitor; to keep track of; to watch
  - If you are careful to keep tabs on your finances, you should be able to stay within a budget.

(Sag et al., 2003) ⇒ Ivan A. Sag, Thomas Wasow, and Emily M. Bender. (2003). “Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction, 2nd edition." CSLI Publications.
- QUOTE: The idioms kick the bucket, keep tabs on, and take advantage of each have an idiosyncratic meaning, which requires that all of its parts co-occur. That is, the words in these idioms take on their idiomatic meanings only when they appear together with other parts of the idioms.