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surveillance|sɜːˈveɪləns, -ljəns, səˈveɪ(j)əns, F. syrvɛjɑ̃s|
[ad. F. surveillance, n. of action f. surveiller: see next and -ance.]
a. 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.
[1799Monthly Rev. XXX. 578 Vast depôts of..property..in the rooms belonging to the office of the committee of Surveillance.] 1802J. G. Lemaistre Rough Sk. Mod. Paris xxix. 236 They are kept under the constant ‘surveillance of the police.’ [Note, Surveillance, Watch, or special care.] 1815J. W. Croker in Croker Papers 19 July (1884) I. 67 General Becker—the officer who was charged with the surveillance of Buonaparte. 1825T. Hook Sayings Ser. ii. Man Many Fr. (Colburn) 84 A tour under the surveillance of a tutor. 1834Marryat P. Simple xx, Not to allow parole or permission to leave the fortress, even under surveillance. 1853Humphreys Coin-coll. Man. xxii. (1876) 301 The copper [coinage] remained under the surveillance of the Senate. 1882J. C. Morison Macaulay i. 6 No Puritanic surveillance directed his choice of books. 1884Manch. Exam. 2 May 4/7 He says that Portugal will carry out the provisions of the Treaty under the surveillance of England.
b. attrib., esp. of devices, vessels, etc., used in military or police surveillance.
1947Aviation Feb. 83/3 It recommended that surveillance radar be developed as an adjunct to airport traffic control... Surveillance radar could be used by control tower personnel to..locate planes [etc.]. 1958Times 24 July 9/6 New methods of detection by surveillance drones, airborne and ground radar, [etc.]. 1960Signal Mar. 41/1 BMEWS will have a long-range surveillance radar system which reportedly will detect ICBM's as they rise over the horizon at distances of several thousand miles. 1966M. Woodhouse Tree Frog viii. 63 The Americans are putting up about one new surveillance satellite every fifteen days or so. 1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Feb. 9/6 The USS Pueblo, the electronic surveillance ship seized by North Korea. 1975D. Pitts Target Manhattan (1976) ii. 262 He switched on the surveillance cameras and looked at the street. 1976Honolulu Star-Bull. 21 Dec. b–6/1 He was on a surveillance team which saw Scanlan and Maiava meet with the informer on different occasions. 1980Globe & Laurel July/Aug. 199/2 Its initial appearance took E Coy—on surveillance duty—completely by surprise. |