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surveillance
/sɚˈveɪ.ləns/
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What does surveillance mean?
noun
- Close observation of an individual or group; person or persons under suspicion.
- Continuous monitoring of disease occurrence for example.
- Systematic observation of places and people by visual, aural, electronic, photographic or other means.
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noun
- In criminal law, an investigation process by which police gather evidence about crimes, or suspected crime, through continued observation of persons or places.
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To dream of a lap-robe, indicates suspicious engagements will place you under the surveillance of enemies or friends.
The conventions of the business world have grown up under the selective surveillance of this principle of predation or parasitism.
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The Restoration had placed him on half-pay, then had sent him into residence, that is to say, under surveillance, at Vernon.
Böttgher, however, was still under strict surveillance, for fear lest he should communicate his secret to others or escape the Elector’s control.
To socialists we owe the organization of labor, the right to labor; they are the promoters of the regime of surveillance.