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surveillant

[ser-vey-luhnt, -veyl-yuhnt]

adjective

  1. exercising surveillance.



noun

  1. a person who exercises surveillance.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of surveillant1

1810–20; < French, present participle of surveiller ( surveillance, -ant )
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"There's a particular ire reserved for women like Perry: ambitious, unapologetic, hyper-visible," she wrote in a column, noting that male celebrities have already gone into space without such surveillant reaction.

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The strongest, tautest story in the collection is “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak,” again told in second person, this time from the perspective of a government surveillant.

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The movie is all tableaux — pacific, surveillant, surreal.

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The consequences of that world for the surveillant as well as the surveilled is a lesson for this day and age for sure.

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Cédric, un surveillant, a prodigué les premiers soins à ses collègues hier en attendant l’unité sanitaire.

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