English-German translations for surveil

• obsen
• überwachen
  Die Behörden überwachen die inzwischen geschlossene Farm ständig. Authorities are keeping the farm under close surveillance and it has been closed.

Definition of surveil

• To keep someone or something under surveillance

Examples

• The plaintiff also stresses that the store as a whole, and the customer exits especially, were closely surveilled.
• Alexandre of London v. Indem. Ins. Co., 182 F. Supp. 748, 750 (United States District Court for the District of Columbia) (1960), cited in [http://books.google.com/books?id=35dZpfMmxqsC&pg=PA861&lpg=PA861&dq=%22The+plaintiff+also+stresses+that+the+store+as+a+whole,+and+the+customer+exits+especially,+were+closely+surveilled.%22&source=bl&ots=k8vXUBrdEe&sig=Tky7ERso11ceN-T1gTrok7D_QaU&hl=en&ei=RB3nS8vzF4H88Aap5NSNDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22The%20plaintiff%20also%20stresses%20that%20the%20store%20as%20a%20whole%2C%20and%20the%20customer%20exits%20especially%2C%20were%20closely%20surveilled.%22&f=false Bryan A. Garner. A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage (2nd ed., 2001)] p. 861

Related words

• surveillance
• countersurveillance
• cybersurveillance
• telesurveillance
• cyber-surveillance
• surveille
• surveillance camera
• surveillance monitor
• surveillance state