shadowing

5 definitions • 5 examples

present participle of

to follow closely:

The police think that the robbers shadowed their victims for days before the crime.

The euro has closely shadowed the dollar.

to follow someone else while they are at work in order to learn about that person's job:

Your first week in the job will be spent shadowing one of our more experienced employees.

to produce a shadow:

We came across a glade shadowed by large trees.

to make a person unhappy or to make their life less happy:

Mental illness had shadowed him for more than a decade.