surveillance

Surveillance, n.

Etymology: [F., fr. surveiller to watch over; sur over + veiller to watch, L. vigilare. See Sur-, and Vigil.]

Oversight; watch; inspection; supervision. That sort of surveillance of which . . . the young have accused the old. Sir W. Scott.

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for surveillance; he lists it under oversight.

Where he writes about it:

Surveillance is an invidious term signifying watching with something of suspicion. — from oversight

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