surveillances
- 1Plural of surveillance.
Detectives conducted multiple surveillances over several months to build their case.
The oversight committee reviewed the agency's surveillances for legal violations.
Note
A plural that only appears when surveillance is counted. As a mass noun it names watching as an activity (kept under surveillance). In criminal law, though, each investigation that gathers evidence by continued observation of a person or place can be a surveillance of its own. Use the plural for separate, distinct operations, such as several surveillances of one suspect. Keep the singular for the activity in general.
surveillances is a form of surveillance
surveillance, noun: Close observation of an individual or group, especially someone under suspicion. Full entry
- Forms
- surveillancesurveillances plural
- Spelling
- surveillance → surveillances: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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