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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
surveillance
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a security/surveillance camera (=a camera that takes photographs of people in buildings or public places)
▪ He was seen on a car park security camera.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
close
▪ He was not immediately arrested at the airport but kept under close surveillance.
▪ State officials reviewed his case and said they would take unprecedented measures to keep him under close surveillance.
constant
▪ He did not retire into a monastery but lived in Rangoon as a layman, under constant police surveillance.
▪ Anything less than constant surveillance would be as no surveillance at all.
▪ This is expressed in his use of constant surveillance and in his drive to eliminate waste and distractions.
▪ He alleges that authorities kept King under constant surveillance.
electronic
▪ The bank has its own armed security guards-each a professional marksman-and electronic surveillance systems.
▪ He said increased security will include random searches of park visitors and more electronic surveillance at all venues.
▪ Also, an uneven terrain made electronic surveillance more difficult.
▪ In all, four instances of electronic surveillance without a court notIce occurred during the late 1950s.
national
▪ Clearly this is an attempt to impose a national screening and surveillance programme to monitor the health of older people.
■ NOUN
camera
▪ New security measures, including video surveillance cameras, come into force on the city's bus fleet this week.
▪ Two border surveillance cameras, mounted on large steel poles, have been destroyed by gunfire.
▪ He is filmed by a video surveillance camera.
▪ Both areas are monitored round the clock by surveillance cameras and detectives are hoping that the hoaxer has been captured on tape.
▪ The installation of surveillance cameras also seems to work, if Airdrie's experience is anything to go by.
▪ Read in studio Well, one police force is hoping to cut crime by using surveillance cameras.
disease
▪ National notifiable disease surveillance is organized around state by state reporting systems for which states have ample legal authority.
▪ This year, the United States upgraded its disease surveillance system to detect any early outbreak of infection.
▪ National infectious disease surveillance systems form the foundation of our ability to know and track the routine.
equipment
▪ The company still plans to sell off Thorn Security and Electronics, which makes security and surveillance equipment for the defence industry.
operation
▪ He criticised the agency's surveillance operations, and alleged that it was incompetent.
▪ Guillaume Depardieu, 23, was arrested on Saturday with four other men after a surveillance operation.
programme
▪ Because of the high risk of developing a further cancer the patient was entered into the surveillance programme.
▪ Results One hundred and eighty patients fulfilled the criteria for entry into the surveillance programme.
▪ Clearly this is an attempt to impose a national screening and surveillance programme to monitor the health of older people.
▪ All but one of the colorectal cancers in this series occurred in patients outside the surveillance programme.
▪ This patient was the only case of cancer detected by the surveillance programme.
system
▪ Fashionable north London, six bedrooms, an acre of garden, a surveillance system, electronic gates, a road-to-house intercom.
▪ This year, the United States upgraded its disease surveillance system to detect any early outbreak of infection.
▪ Private security firms using surveillance systems should be subject to inspections.
▪ Improved computer-editing proceedings have been developed and implemented in the surveillance system which identify measurements that may contain errors.
▪ The bank has its own armed security guards-each a professional marksman-and electronic surveillance systems.
▪ In the United States, existing surveillance systems are inadequate to rapidly recognize outbreaks of this parasitic infection.
▪ But the range of ground surveillance systems, nomatterhow sophisticated, is inevitably restricted by the curvature of the earth's surface.
▪ National infectious disease surveillance systems form the foundation of our ability to know and track the routine.
team
▪ She had her surveillance team in place, ready to begin shadowing her military target.
▪ I spotted Tony Redfern's surveillance team on my first pass of the Smarts' warehouse.
▪ It was the last thing the surveillance team had expected.
▪ Accordingly, he had indeed doubled the surveillance team, detailing two men to each side of the Eldorado apartment block.
▪ They must have spotted your surveillance team and shifted everything out in advance of the raid.
▪ Hamid Tefileen was said to have been spotted by surveillance teams and arrested in autumn 1998.
▪ Lieutenant Curtis had made it very clear to the surveillance team how mentally unbalanced and dangerous he considered the Prophet to be.
▪ Tonight he would butcher one of his surveillance team.
video
▪ This was confirmed in 14 patients by covert video surveillance.
▪ With built-in video surveillance, even graffiti would be deterred.
▪ New security measures, including video surveillance cameras, come into force on the city's bus fleet this week.
▪ The police have had the estate under video surveillance for many weeks.
▪ He is filmed by a video surveillance camera.
▪ Security robots may be much more commonplace, looking for fires and intruders, and there will be more video surveillance.
■ VERB
conduct
▪ However, limited resources have left many state and local health departments with inadequate capacity to conduct surveillance for most infectious diseases.
▪ Police conducting surveillance of a stolen Honda Accord that was parked, saw two males getting into the car.
keep
▪ She wanted to spend the afternoon keeping Kattina under surveillance.
▪ He alleges that authorities kept King under constant surveillance.
▪ The suspects were kept under surveillance.
▪ State officials reviewed his case and said they would take unprecedented measures to keep him under close surveillance.
▪ We would keep surveillance and follow the person who collects it, hoping to apprehend the whole gang and rescue Fontaine.
use
▪ Private security firms using surveillance systems should be subject to inspections.
▪ Data are collected prospectively, using standardized surveillance components and nosocomial infection definitions.
▪ Read in studio Well, one police force is hoping to cut crime by using surveillance cameras.
▪ The show uses video surveillance footage, interviews and re-enactments to focus on lamebrain criminal acts.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Banks are installing surveillance cameras to prevent robberies.
▪ Television surveillance in public areas should help to make housing developments safer.
▪ The men had been under surveillance by customs officers for some time before their arrest.
▪ The terrorists had been kept under constant surveillance by our officers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And even this unobtrusive surveillance might be only a part of her fantasy.
▪ It was reported that the agreement covered missile systems, light armoured vehicles and sea surveillance aircraft.
▪ Military intelligence maintained its surveillance of black organizational activity to determine the extent of black radicalism.
▪ Patients with increased oesophageal alkalinisation require careful surveillance because of their increased likelihood of developing complications.
▪ Police surveillance has prevented us contacting your sister-in-law.
▪ These cancer surveillance programmes are now widely implemented despite not having been subjected to clinical trial.
▪ This patient was the only case of cancer detected by the surveillance programme.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Surveillance

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.

That sort of surveillance of which . . . the young have accused the old.
--Sir W. Scott.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
surveillance

1802, from French surveillance "oversight, supervision, a watch," noun of action from surveiller "oversee, watch" (17c.), from sur- "over" (see sur- (1)) + veiller "to watch," from Latin vigilare, from vigil "watchful" (see vigil). Seemingly a word that came to English from the Terror in France ("surveillance committees" were formed in every French municipality in March 1793 by order of the Convention to monitor the actions and movements of suspect persons, outsiders, and dissidents).

Wiktionary
surveillance

n. 1 close observation of an individual or group; person or persons under suspicion. 2 continuous monitoring of disease occurrence for example. 3 (context military espionage English) systematic observation of places and people by visual, aural, electronic, photographic or other means.

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WordNet
surveillance

n. close observation of a person or group (usually by the police)

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Wikipedia
Surveillance

Surveillance ( or ) is the monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other changing information, usually of people for the purpose of influencing, managing, directing, or protecting them. This can include observation from a distance by means of electronic equipment (such as CCTV cameras), or interception of electronically transmitted information (such as Internet traffic or phone calls); and it can include simple, relatively no- or low-technology methods such as human intelligence agents and postal interception. The word surveillance comes from a French phrase for "watching over" ("sur" means "from above" and "veiller" means "to watch"), and is in contrast to more recent developments such as sousveillance.

Surveillance is used by governments for intelligence gathering, the prevention of crime, the protection of a process, person, group or object, or for the investigation of crime. It is also used by criminal organizations to plan and commit crimes such as robbery and kidnapping, by businesses to gather intelligence, and by private investigators.

Surveillance is often a violation of privacy, and is opposed by various civil liberties groups and activists. Liberal democracies have laws which restrict domestic government and private use of surveillance, usually limiting it to circumstances where public safety is at risk. Authoritarian government seldom have any domestic restrictions; and international espionage is common among all types of countries.

Surveillance (Triumph album)

Surveillance is the ninth studio album by Canadian hard rock band Triumph, released July 27, 1987 (see 1987 in music). The album was recorded at Metalworks Studios, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. This is the last Triumph album to feature Rik Emmett until his return to the band in 2008.

Surveillance (disambiguation)

Surveillance is the monitoring of people's actions.

Surveillance may also refer to:

Surveillance (2008 film)

Surveillance is a 2008 American independent thriller film co-written and directed by Jennifer Lynch and starring Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman, Michael Ironside and French Stewart. The story is set in the Nebraska plains of United States. The film premiered "out of competition" and appeared in a midnight slot at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. Surveillance is Lynch's second feature film, following a fifteen-year break after Boxing Helena.

Surveillance (novel)

Surveillance is a novel by Jonathan Raban.

Surveillance (FM album)

Surveillance is the third album by FM, a progressive rock group from Toronto, Canada, released on Passport Records in summer 1979, the first to be "widely issued." It has been re-released for the first time in CD format on Esoteric Records in March 2013.

Surveillance (2006 film)

Surveillance is a 2006 film directed by Fritz Kiersch. It stars Armand Assante and Nick Cornish.

Surveillance (1997 film)

Surveillance is a 1997 Chinese comedy film directed by Huang Jianxin. It was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival.

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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.