Surveillance

Noun

 * 1) Close observation of an individual or group, especially one under suspicion
 * 2) Continuous monitoring of disease occurrence for example
 * 3)  Systematic observation of places and people by visual, aural, electronic, photographic or other means.
 * 4)  In criminal law, an investigation process by which police gather evidence about crimes, or suspected crime, through continued observation of persons or places.

Adjectives for Surveillance
terror; security; disease; electronic; computer; phone; technical; mass; clinical; syndromic; natural; battlefield; counter-; epidemiological; inverse; word; long range; market; postmarketing; workplace health; warrantless; space; marine; land; water; undersea; ocean; oceanic; perimeter.

Thesaurus
accountability, ambuscade, ambush, ambushment, auspices, blind, booby trap, bossing, bugging, care, charge, cloak-and-dagger work, counterespionage, counterintelligence, custodianship, custody, eagle eye, electronic surveillance, espial, espionage, eye, following, guard, guardedness, guardianship, intelligence, intelligence work, intendance, invigilation, jurisdiction, lookout, lurking hole, military intelligence, monitoring, observance, observation, oversight, peeled eye, proctoring, prudence, qui vive, reconnaissance, responsibility, scrutiny, secret police, secret service, shadowing, sharp eye, spying, stakeout, stalking-horse, stewardship, superintendence, supervision, tab, tailing, tout, trailing, trap, vigil, vigilance, wariness, watch, watch and ward, watchful eye, watchfulness, watching, weather eye, wiretap, wiretapping

Etymology
From surveillance:, from surveiller:, from sur-: + veiller:, from, from  veillier:, from  vigilare:, present active infinitive of vigilo:. More at.

Derived terms

 * uberveillance

Related terms
surveil; survey

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 監測, 监测, 監視, 监视
 * French: surveillance
 * Georgian: ზედამხედველობა, მეთვალყურეობა, დაკვირვება
 * German:


 * Hebrew:
 * Japanese: 監視, サーベイランス
 * Russian: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:

Noun

 * , watch
 * 1) supervision
 * 2) lookout (act)