ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Superveillance

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˌsupɚˈveɪ.ləns/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Superveillance is a noun meaning Supervision taken too far, bordering on surveillance.

Meaning

Supervision taken too far, bordering on surveillance.

Example Sentences

There are now about 1400 police stations in the country, each having under its superveillance an average area of about 14,000 stature acres.
Superveillance extends the boundaries of traditional supervisory review — it does not replace or diminish the importance of managing day-to-day tasks more efficiently or effectively.
It could be further mentioned that bourgeois individualist civil society need the fallback of an authoritarian state with a high degree of superveillance to sustain the power relations intrinsic to it.
Even the curiosity of royalty was excited; and His Majesty George III., with that degree of bonhommie which led him to inquire into the private circumstances of many of his subjects, who little thought of such inquisitorial superveillance, condescended to make himself master of the secret.

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