surveillance
Close observation of an individual or groupClose observation of an individual or group; person or persons under suspicion.
» The police have Tom under surveillance.
Полиция держит Тома под наблюдением.
Meaning
4 senses(countable, uncountable)Close observation of an individual or group; person or persons under suspicion.
Überwachung
надзо́рnadzór, наблюде́ниеnabljudénije
наглядnahljad
close observation of a person or group (usually by the police)
(countable, uncountable)Continuous monitoring of disease occurrence for example.
(countable, uncountable)Systematic observation of places and people by visual, aural, electronic, photographic or other means.
(countable, uncountable)In criminal law, an investigation process by which police gather evidence about crimes, or suspected crime, through continued observation of persons or places.
Examples
68 sentencesThe police have Tom under surveillance.
ruПолиция держит Тома под наблюдением. — odexed
Tom didn't notice the surveillance camera.
ruТом не заметил камеру наблюдения. — odexed
deTom bemerkte die Überwachungskamera nicht. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
I didn't notice the surveillance cameras.
Tom is under surveillance.
ruТом находится под наблюдением. — odexed
Tom is still under surveillance.
ruТом всё ещё находится под наблюдением. — odexed
Translations
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Origin
Unadapted borrowing from French surveillance (“a watching over, overseeing, supervision”),Unadapted borrowing from French surveillance (“a watching over, overseeing, supervision”), from surveiller (“to watch, oversee”), from sur- (“over”) + veiller (“to watch”), from Middle French, from Old French veillier (“to stay awake”), from Latin vigilāre (“to be watchful”). More at vigilant.
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Forms
plural: surveillances| Singular | surveillance |
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regular
Word family
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