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What is a watchword?

What is a watchword? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. a prearranged reply to the challenge of a sentry or a guard; a password or signal by which friends can be known from enemies
  2. a word used as a motto, as expressive of a principle or rule of action; a maxim, byword
  3. a rallying cry
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The watchword here was informality, with the pair linking skits and sketches in an amiable, easy-going manner.
To say one thing and then the opposite is the watchword of the Liberal Party.
Scientific temper is his watchword, education his mission, communal concord his theme and tolerance his telling weapon.
Congestion is the watchword by which megalopolitans and contrapolitans distinguish one another.
Democracy is sometimes the watchword of those who think that all political problems could be solved if only we became a real democracy.
Go west appears to be the watchword at the moment for Marc Guillemot and Charles Caudrelier Benac.

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