Surveillance

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           That sort of surveillance of which . . . the young have
           accused the old.                         --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  70 Moby Thesaurus words for "surveillance":
     accountability, ambuscade, ambush, ambushment, auspices, blind,
     booby trap, bossing, bugging, care, charge, cloak-and-dagger work,
     counterespionage, counterintelligence, custodianship, custody,
     eagle eye, electronic surveillance, espial, espionage, eye,
     following, guard, guardedness, guardianship, intelligence,
     intelligence work, intendance, invigilation, jurisdiction, lookout,
     lurking hole, military intelligence, monitoring, observance,
     observation, oversight, peeled eye, proctoring, prudence, qui vive,
     reconnaissance, responsibility, scrutiny, secret police,
     secret service, shadowing, sharp eye, spying, stakeout,
     stalking-horse, stewardship, superintendence, supervision, tab,
     tailing, tout, trailing, trap, vigil, vigilance, wariness, watch,
     watch and ward, watchful eye, watchfulness, watching, weather eye,
     wiretap, wiretapping