transitive verb
-·veilled′, -·veil′ling to engage in surveillance of; keep watch over
Origin of surveil
back-formation from surveillancesurveil
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surveil
transitive verb
sur·veilled, sur·veil·ling, sur·veilsTo keep under surveillance.
Origin of surveil
Back-formation from surveillanceTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Verb
(third-person singular simple present surveils, present participle surveilling, simple past and past participle surveilled)
- (nonstandard) To keep someone or something under surveillance.
- The plaintiff also stresses that the store as a whole, and the customer exits especially, were closely surveilled.
- Alexandre of London v. Indem. Ins. Co., 182 F. Supp. 748, 750 (United States District Court for the District of Columbia) (1960), cited in Bryan A. Garner. A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage (2nd ed., 2001) p. 861
- The plaintiff also stresses that the store as a whole, and the customer exits especially, were closely surveilled.
Origin
Back-formation from surveillance. More at survey.
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