surveillance

surveillance
sur|veil|lance [səˈveıləns US sər-] n [U]
[Date: 1800-1900; : French; Origin: surveiller 'to watch over', from sur- ( SURCHARGE) + veiller 'to watch' (from Latin vigil; VIGIL)]
1.) when the police, army, etc watch a person or place carefully because they may be connected with criminal activities
surveillance of
▪ 24-hour surveillance of the building
under surveillance
▪ They were under constant close surveillance day and night.
▪ The suspects were kept under surveillance .
▪ electronic surveillance equipment
2.) when one country watches the military activities of another country to see what they are planning to do
▪ a surveillance mission
▪ surveillance aircraft
3.) when doctors, health departments etc watch an ill person or watch the development of a disease in a population
under surveillance
▪ Diane was placed under psychiatric surveillance.

Dictionary of contemporary English. 2013.

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  • surveillance — I noun care, charge, circumspection, examination, guard, heed, inspection, lookout, observation, oversight, protection, scrutiny, stewardship, superintendence, supervision, vigil, vigilance, watch, watchfulness II index bondage, contemplation,… …   Law dictionary

  • Surveillance — set of activities, except reassessment, to monitor the continued fulfillment by accredited conformity assessment bodies of requirements for accreditation (p. 3.18 ISO/ IEC 17011:2004). Источник …   Словарь-справочник терминов нормативно-технической документации

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  • Surveillance — Sur*veil lance, n. [F., fr. surveiller to watch over; sur over + veiller to watch, L. vigilare. See {Sur }, and {Vigil}.] Oversight; watch; inspection; supervision. [1913 Webster] That sort of surveillance of which . . . the young have accused… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 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 (Cf. vigil)). Seemingly a word of the Terror in France …   Etymology dictionary

  • Surveillance — (fr., spr. Sürwelliangs), Wachsamkeit, Aufsicht …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Surveillance — (sürweljangß), frz., Aufsicht, Wachsamkeit …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • surveillance — *oversight, supervision Analogous words: inspection, scrutiny, examination (see under SCRUTINIZE) …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • surveillance — is pronounced sǝ vay lǝns, with the ll articulated …   Modern English usage

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