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sur⋅veil⋅lant

  [ser-vey-luhnt, -veyl-yuhnt]
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–adjective
1. exercising surveillance.
–noun
2. a person who exercises surveillance.
Origin:
1810–20; < F, prp. of surveiller (see surveillance, -ant )
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sur·veil·lant   (sər-vā'lənt)   
adj.  Exercising surveillance.
n.  One that exercises surveillance.

[French, present participle of surveiller, to watch over : sur-, over (from Old French; see sur-) + veiller, to watch (from Old French veillier, from Latin vigilāre, from vigil, watchful; see weg- in Indo-European roots).]
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