Antonyms for surveillance
sərˈveɪ ləns, -ˈveɪl yənssur·veil·lance

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1. surveillance

   A person may look over a matter in order to survey it carefully in its entirety, or he may look over it with no attention to the thing itself because his gaze and thought are concentrated on something beyond; oversight has thus two contrasted senses, in the latter sense denoting inadvertent error or omission, and in the former denoting watchful supervision, commonly implying constant personal presence; superintendence requires only so much of presence or communication as to know that the superintendent's wishes are carried out; the superintendent of a railroad will personally oversee very few of its operations; the railroad company has supreme direction of all its affairs without superintendence or oversight. Control is used chiefly with reference to restraint or the power of restraint; a good horseman has a restless horse under perfect control; there is no high character without self-control. Surveillance is an invidious term signifying watching with something of suspicion. Compare CARE; NEGLECT.

   Synonyms:
   care, charge, command, control, direction, inspection, management, oversight, superintendence, supervision, watch, watchfulness

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1. • Police Work

Princeton's WordNet

1. surveillancenoun

   close observation of a person or group (usually by the police)

How to use surveillance in a sentence?

1. Anthony Romero:

   They spoke about the National Security Agency's (NSA) electronic surveillance, its ramifications for world leaders and impact on the citizens of foreign countries.

2. Peter Fearnhead:

   Extensive measures to protect these animals include aerial surveillance, daily ranger patrols, and the integration of the most advanced technology to enable live-time tracking, with fewer than 5,500 black rhinos remaining in the wild, translocations to well-protected areas are essential for their long-term survival.

3. Terri Cornelison:

   Although Essure is no longer available for implantation in the U.S., The FDA remains committed to evaluating long-term safety information in women who have received the device, including data from an FDA-required postmarket surveillance study, the FDA is working with Bayer, Essure's manufacturer, to modify The FDA study to include an additional interim analysis at one year of follow up after patients' permanent birth control procedure -- this is earlier than the previously planned analysis at three years.

4. The BDU:

   Vitaly Shishov was under surveillance. There were appropriate notifications to the police about the facts. Also we were repeatedly warned by local sources and by our own people in Belarus about all kinds of provocations up to kidnapping and liquidation, vitaly Shishov treated these warnings with stoicism and humor, stating that at least in this way, it would be possible for BDU to get out of the info vacuum.

5. Maaz Jewelers Usman Bhatti:

   They know they will get away with that, and then nothing has happened so far, and… nobody's doing anything, they got all the surveillance videos… they have been working on them but haven't heard anything.

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