Surveil vs Supervise - What's the difference?
surveil | supervise |
(nonstandard) To keep someone or something under surveillance.
:The plaintiff also stresses that the store as a whole, and the customer exits especially, were closely surveilled .
::Alexandre of London v. Indem. Ins. Co., 182 F. Supp. 748, 750 (United States District Court for the District of Columbia) (1960), cited in
To direct, manage, or oversee; to be in charge
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, title= (obsolete) To look over so as to read; to peruse.
* 1590 , , IV. ii. 120:
As verbs the difference between surveil and supervise
is that surveil is (nonstandard) to keep someone or something under surveillance while supervise is .surveil
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Bryan A. Garner. A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage (2nd ed., 2001)p. 861
supervise
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(supervis)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}
- Let me supervise the canzonet.