Close observation of a person or group

Usage examples of surveillance.

Peeling clear of the wood, curling tighter and tighter, and finally crumbling into small bits with what must have been malignly silent suddenness, the portrait of Joseph Curwen had resigned forever its staring surveillance of the youth it so strangely resembled, and now lay scattered on the floor as a thin coating of fine blue-grey dust.

Hawk out of Minot located the camp and kept the area under IR and SSR surveillance until we could hoof it up here.

We have grown accustomed to the constant overwatch of surveillance cameras, in banks, in shopping malls, and convienience stores, in government buildings, office buildings and apartment buildings and airports, on highways, at intersections and in parking lots.

Many years before, he had been assigned to a full month of electronic surveillance and it had left him slightly paranoic on the subject.

She picked up the holobinoculars and replayed the surveillance scan Peart had just completed.

He and Peart had taken over one of the geosurvey labs and reconfigured it into a sophisticated planetary surveillance center.

New Republic, but in the process, they had hopped forward in time by four thousand years, zigzagging between the two planetless components of the binary system in an attempt to outrun any long-term surveillance that the Festival might have placed on them.

All but twenty-eight magazines were placed on postpublication surveillance status by December 1947, with the exceptions remaining subject to prepublication approval until October 1949.

After that, human surveillance of Ghost quagma projects was stepped up.

My misgivings were instantly aroused and I placed Ramus Ymph under close surveillance.

Despite the isolation and remoteness of the base, he said, the ocean surveillance compound was also closely guarded by a detachment of U.

Her satphone provider was based in Houston and subject to the surveillance provisions of the Emergency Immigration Act.

He had promised to be careful, to run no risks of letting Shipton know he was under surveillance.

With stepped-up surveillance, this effectively locked them in, along with all shishi and other antagonists throughout the capital.

Russo had set the showdown in motion by meeting with San Filippo, Slattery had picked up the telephone and pulled the twenty-four-hour surveillance off the gas station.