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What does surveil mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive, nonstandard, US) To keep someone or something under surveillance.
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He explained, very simply and very carefully and honestly, what he had done to surveil this family because of his suspicions.
The NYPD rotates six helicopters to surveil the city from above.
Known as the Stasi by East Germans, it used some 90,000 regular employees and nearly double that number of informers to surveil the country's 17 million people.
Watching everyone share everything in their social lives and instrumenting the web to surveil everything they read outside the system is inherently unethical.
Several companies have fully embraced the requests of governments to directly and actively provide services to surveil e-mail and blogs and to censor and filter Web content and search results.
We're heading into a world where everyone can surveil everyone else.

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