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ləns, -ˈveɪl noun
1.
a watch kept over a person, group, etc., especially over a suspect, prisoner, or the like: The suspects were under police surveillance.
2.
supervision or superintendence.
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| —n | |
| close observation or supervision maintained over a person, group, etc, esp one in custody or under suspicion | |
| [C19: from French, from surveiller to watch over, from | |
| sur'veillant | |
| —adj, —n | |
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Surveillance
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Word Origin & History
surveillance
1802, from Fr. surveillance "oversight, supervision, a watch," noun of action from surveiller "oversee, watch," from sur- "over" + veiller "to watch," from L. vigilare, from vigil "watchful" (see vigil). Seemingly a word of the Terror in France. A hideous back-formation, surveille
(v.), was coined in 1960 in U.S. government jargon. Pray that it dies.
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Medical Dictionary
surveillance sur·veil·lance (sər-vā'ləns)
n.
Close observation of a person or group, especially one under suspicion.
The act of observing or the condition of being observed.
The collection, collation, analysis, and dissemination of data.
A type of observational study that involves continuous monitoring of disease occurrence within a population.
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Example sentences
These programs could enormously increase the surveillance powers of governments.
Such blimps can keep surveillance and ordnance-guiding equipment aloft for a few hundred dollars an hour.
Perry's program is not the first to employ video technology in the service of community surveillance.
The less-obtrusive vessel could be used for research and surveillance.
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