surveil
/səˈveɪl
/(also surveille)
verb (surveils, surveilling, surveilled) [with object] chiefly US
Keep (a person or place) under surveillance: he deployed FBI agents to surveil the offices of those companies...
- We're heading into a world where everyone can surveil everyone else.
- The NYPD rotates six helicopters to surveil the city from above.
- Americans don't like to think that we're being surveilled.
Origin
1960s: back-formation from surveillance.
Rhymes
- consumption trial
- consumption weed
- consumptive
- consumptively
- cont.
- contact
- contactable
- contact-breaker
- contact center
- contact clause
- contactee
- contact flight
- contact flying
- contact high
- contact lens
- contactless
- contact man
- contact metamorphism
- contactor
- contact print
- contact process
- contact sheet
- contact sport
- contadina
- contadino