surveilv.
/səˈveɪl/ transitive. To exercise surveillance over (someone), subject (someone) to surveillance. Also with a place or area as object, and absol.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > keeping watch > keep watch on [verb (transitive)]
biwitieOE
to look to ——c1330
watchc1330
to make or lay await onc1386
markc1400
to wait to ——c1440
to keep (also have) an (or one's) eye on (also upon)a1450
waken1535
to look unto ——1594
to carry a wary (also watchful, etc.) eye on (also upon)1596
to look after ——a1616
overwatch1618
snokea1652
to look up1855
surveil1960
1960 Federal Suppl. (U.S.) CLXXXII. 750/1 The plaintiff also stresses that the store as a whole, and the customer exits especially, were closely surveilled.
1968 Guardian 6 Aug. 4/1 It was some time before I was being surveilled..with the full courtesy of a Home Office warrant.
1972 B. F. Conners Don't embarrass Bureau ii. 123 ‘You'll have to conduct the surveillance.’..‘I'm supposed to surveil her?’ ‘That's right.’
Derivatives
surˈveilled adj.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > keeping watch > [adjective] > exercising surveillance > kept under surveillance
surveilled1980
1980 N. Freeling Castang's City xvii. 111 A few hints are conveyed by the word ‘light’. Not around twenty-four hours: that's ‘intense’ and needs three separate shifts... Light means not leaning on people: the surveilled aren't supposed to notice.
surˈveilling n.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > keeping watch > [noun] > surveillance
markingc1443
watch1611
observation1776
surveillance1802
surveilling1966
1966 Harper's Mag. Oct. 37/1 If the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is as adroit in surveilling others as it is in escaping surveillance of itself, the Republic can relax.
1969 New Scientist 10 July 10/1 Night surveilling systems for railway marshalling yards.
1975 O. Sela Bengali Inheritance xix. 169 ‘Where the hell is everybody?’..‘Out... Surveilling. Big emergency.’
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