surveillance

CEFRB2

/sɚˈveɪ.ləns/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    Careful watching of people or places.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Continuous monitoring of disease occurrence for example.

Examples

  • Eventually it was decided that the stores be equipped with surveillance cameras.

  • Somebody tipped off the gang members to the police surveillance.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Systematic observation of places and people by visual, aural, electronic, photographic or other means.

  2. Close observation of an individual or group; person or persons under suspicion.

  3. In criminal law, an investigation process by which police gather evidence about crimes, or suspected crime, through continued observation of persons or places.

More examples

In context

  • The police are keeping the suspects under constant surveillance.

  • The surveillance program includes at least 480 LPRs that scan and record about 16.2 million vehicles per week and stores that data for two years, he wrote in the court filing.

  • Cook was making an impassioned plea to end the technology industry’s collection and sale of user data. “This is surveillance,” he continued.

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Origin

noun

Unadapted borrowing from French surveillance (“a watching over, overseeing, supervision”), from surveiller (“to watch, oversee”), from sur- (“over”) + veiller (“to watch”), from Middle French, from Old French veillier (“to stay awake”), from Latin vigilāre (“to be watchful”). More at vigilant.