Usually means: Monitoring activities for information gathering.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word surveillance:

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

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. Surveillance: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. surveillance: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. surveillance: Medical dictionary
  4. 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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