surveillance

Noun

Meaning

Oversight; watch; inspection; supervision.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

observation watching reconnaissance oversight scrutiny monitoring inspection vigilance watchfulness information gathering guard secret service control view direction
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Antonyms

ice negligence indifference disdain overlook coldness
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Hypernyms

police work police investigation

Hyponyms

watch vigil stakeout electronic surveillance surveillance of disease

Related terms

surveil

Phrases with the word

be under close surveillance keep under surveillance immune surveillance mediterranean fruit fly surveillance coastal surveillance aerial surveillance

Examples

To permit surveillance to take root on the Internet would mean subjecting virtually all forms of human interaction, planning, and even thought itself to comprehensive state examination. Glenn Greenwald

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government. William O. Douglas

Initially I was very encouraged. Unfortunately, the mainstream media now seems far more interested in what I said when I was 17 or what my girlfriend looks like rather than, say, the largest program of suspicionless surveillance in human history. Edward Snowden

History leaved no doubt that collective coercion and control is both the intent and effect of state surveillance. Glenn Greenwald

No system of mass surveillance has existed in any society that we know of to this point that has not been abused. Edward Snowden

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe. Agnes Smedley

Close letter words and terms

survay surveil surveillable surveillance approach surveillance camera surveillance capitalism