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surveillance

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"Close watch"

12 letters · collected on this word page

12 lettersPronunciation /sɚˈveɪ.ləns/Part of speech nounSorted aceeillnrsuvStarts with SEnds with E1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Filled answer is this word (SURVEILLANCE).

Definitions

  1. Close watching or monitoring of people, places, or activity.

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • The surveillance program includes at least 480 LPRs that scan and record about 16.2 million vehicles per week and stores that data for two years, he wrote in the court filing.
  • The threat of terrorism to the British lies in the overreaction to it of British governments. Each one in turn clicks up the ratchet of surveillance, intrusion and security. Each one diminishes liberty.
  • Cook was making an impassioned plea to end the technology industry’s collection and sale of user data. “This is surveillance,” he continued.

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