What is "surveil"

Usage examples of "surveil".

CIA was surveiling a townhouse where, it was suspected, a terrorist team was being sheltered, before a planned attack on the U.

Bin Ladin associates surveilled our Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam as early as 1993, and some members of the Nairobi cell planning the bombings were arrested and deported in 1997.

Minneapolis and FBI headquarters debated whether Moussaoui should be arrested immediately or surveilled to obtain additional information.

Alternatively, had they been permitted entry and surveilled, some larger results might have been possible had the FBI been patient.

White, while surveilling Cassese inside a cocktail lounge, overheard him attempting to suborn a minor female into prostitution.

Officer White, while surveilling parolee Percy Haskins, observed Haskins in a known criminal assembly with Robert Mackey and Karl Carter Goff.

To start compiling background on the family leadership, he assigned agents to surveil Castellano, Dellacroce and Gallo, simply to learn what their daily routine was, where they met, whom they saw.

Lieutenant, your job would be to surveil Glenda Bledsoe with an eye toward securing contract-violating information.

The Chief of Station Tokyo had a favorite spot, a hostess house located in one of the innumerable meandering backstreets within a mile of the embassy, and also a place very easy to secure and surveil.

But then Wing, who presumably surveils these attorney/client conferences, would know that Randy had figured out the whole game, and Randy doesn’t want Wing to know that.

But then Wing, who presumably surveils these attorney/client conferences, would know that Randy had figured out the whole game, and Randy doesn't want Wing to know that.