radio collar

noun

: a collar with an attached radio transmitter that is put on an animal so that its movements in its natural habitat can be remotely monitored

radio-collar

ˈrā-dē-ō-ˈkä-lər 

transitive verb

Examples of radio collar in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

That year the first radio collars were put on bobcats and coyotes in Liberty Canyon, where the crossing is located. — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026

Officials wrote in a post shared to Facebook that researchers placed a radio collar on the cub's mother during this year's capture season. — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources and other partners worked to take biological samples and affix radio collars to 20 moose in the western Upper Peninsula in February 2025. — Free Press Staff, Freep.com, 19 Feb. 2026

The wolves had been fitted with radio collars that allowed the wolf project team to track their location. — Clark Corbin, Idaho Statesman, 12 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1964, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for radio collar

• eurodollar
• caller
• choler
• crawler
• dollar
• faller
• haller
• hauler
• holler
• scholar
• smaller
• squalor