surveillant
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of surveillant
1810–20; < French, present participle of surveiller ( see surveillance, -ant)
Example Sentences
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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.
From BBC • May 3, 2025
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.
From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2022
The movie is all tableaux — pacific, surveillant, surreal.
From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2022
The consequences of that world for the surveillant as well as the surveilled is a lesson for this day and age for sure.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2022
Half a dozen of the eldest succeeded in obtaining leave, and I was commissioned to accompany them as surveillant.
From The Professor by Brontë, Charlotte
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