Usually means: Monitoring activities for information gathering.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. surveillance: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. surveillance: Merriam-Webster
  3. surveillance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. surveillance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. surveillance: Collins English Dictionary
  6. surveillance: Vocabulary.com
  7. Surveillance, surveillance: Wordnik
  8. surveillance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. surveillance: Wiktionary
  10. surveillance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. surveillance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. surveillance: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. surveillance: Dictionary.com
  14. surveillance: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. surveillance: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Surveillance (FM album), Surveillance (Triumph album), Surveillance (film), Surveillance (novel), Surveillance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Surveillance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. surveillance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. surveillance: Rhymezone
  20. surveillance, surveillance (de), surveillance (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. surveillance: FreeDictionary.org
  22. surveillance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. surveillance: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. surveillance: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. SURVEILLANCE: Accounting Glossary
  4. surveillance: Legal dictionary
  5. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
  6. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. surveillance: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. surveillance: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. surveillance: Medical dictionary
  5. surveillance: Dictionary of Cancer Terms

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Army Technology Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Close observation of an individual or group; person or persons under suspicion.
noun:  Continuous monitoring of disease occurrence for example.
noun:  (military, espionage) Systematic observation of places and people by visual, aural, electronic, photographic or other means.
noun:  (law) In criminal law, an investigation process by which police gather evidence about crimes, or suspected crime, through continued observation of persons or places.

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