Surveil vs Censor - What's the difference?
surveil | censor |
(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
(history) A Roman magistrate, originally a census administrator, by Classical times a high judge of public behavior and morality
An official responsible for the removal of objectionable or sensitive content
One who censures or condemns
(psychology) A hypothetical subconscious agency which filters unacceptable thought before it reaches the conscious
(acronym ) Censors Ensure No Secrets Over Radios
To review in order to remove objectionable content from correspondence or public media, either by legal criteria or with discretionary powers
To remove objectionable content
As verbs the difference between surveil and censor
is that surveil is (nonstandard) to keep someone or something under surveillance while censor is to review in order to remove objectionable content from correspondence or public media, either by legal criteria or with discretionary powers.As a noun censor is
(history) a roman magistrate, originally a census administrator, by classical times a high judge of public behavior and morality.surveil
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Verb
Bryan A. Garner. A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage (2nd ed., 2001)p. 861
censor
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Alternative forms
* censour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The Ancient censors were part of the ''cursus honorum , a series of public offices held during a political career, like consuls and praetors.
- The headmaster is an even stricter censor''' for his boarding pupils' correspondence than the enemy ' censors had been for his own when the country was occupied.
Synonyms
* censurerVerb
(en verb)- The man responsible for censoring films has seen some things in his time.
- ''Occupying powers typically censor anything reeking of resistance