surveillance
English
/səɹˈveɪ.ləns/
noun
Definitions
- Close observation of an individual or group; person or persons under suspicion.
- Continuous monitoring of disease occurrence for example.
- (military) Systematic observation of places and people by visual, aural, electronic, photographic or other means.
- (legal) In criminal law, an investigation process by which police gather evidence about crimes, or suspected crime, through continued observation of persons or places.
Etymology
Borrowed from French surveillance (watching over, a watch, oversee).
Origin
French
surveillance
Gloss
watching over, a watch, oversee
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antisurveillance English
- biosurveillance English
- countersurveillance English
- cybersurveillance English
- geosurveillance English
- immunosurveillance English
- oversurveillance English
- re-surveillance English
- serosurveillance English
- telesurveillance English
- surveillance Dutch, Flemish
- surveillance French
- surveiller French
- télésurveillance French