Word Type

Noun

The word "surveillance" can be used as a noun.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

casino

Derived Terms

antisurveillance biosurveillance countersurveillance cybersurveillance e-surveillance geosurveillance immunosurveillance mass surveillance oversurveillance re-surveillance serosurveillance surveillance approach surveillance camera surveillance capitalism uberveillance video surveillance

Derived From

survey

Etymologically Related To

vigilant

Context

espionage legal military

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

police investigation police work

Type Of (IsA)

police work

Related Terms

lookout shadowing sousveillance stakeout surveil tailing wiretapping

Related Terms

aural close continuous crime criminal disease electronic evidence group inc individual investigation lookout monitor observation occurrence people photographic place police process shadowing sousveillance surveil survey suspicion systematic tailing visual wiretapping

Used For

blackmailing

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.