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- Dictionarysurveillance/səˈveɪləns/
noun
- 1. close observation, especially of a suspected spy or criminal: "he found himself put under surveillance by British military intelligence"
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The meaning of SURVEILLANCE is close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective); also : supervision. How to use surveillance in a sentence.
SURVEILLANCE definition: 1. the careful watching of a person or place, especially by the police or army, because of a crime…. Learn more.
Definition of surveillance noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. the act of carefully watching a person suspected of a crime or a place where a crime may be committed synonym observation. The police are keeping the suspects under constant surveillance.
Surveillance is used by citizens, for instance for protecting their neighborhoods. It is widely used by governments for intelligence gathering, including espionage, prevention of crime, the protection of a process, person, group or object, or the investigation of crime.
Surveillance is the careful watching of someone, especially by an organization such as the police or the army. He was arrested after being kept under constant surveillance. Police swooped on the home after a two-week surveillance operation.
Watch or guard kept over a person, etc., esp. over a suspected person, a prisoner, or the like; often, spying, supervision; less commonly, supervision for the purpose of direction or control, superintendence. Vast depôts of..property..in the rooms belonging to the office of the committee of Surveillance.
SURVEILLANCE meaning: 1. the careful watching of a person or place, especially by the police or army, because of a crime…. Learn more.
The systematic observation of aerospace, surface, or subsurface areas, places, persons, or things, by visual, aural, electronic, photographic, or other means. See also air surveillance; satellite and missile surveillance; sea surveillance.
SURVEILLANCE meaning: the act of carefully watching someone or something especially in order to prevent or detect a crime
Surveillance is the careful watching of someone, especially by an organization such as the police or the army.
