Surveil vs Inspect - What's the difference?
surveil | inspect |
(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 examine critically or carefully; especially, to search out problems or determine condition; to scrutinize.
To view and examine officially.
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As verbs the difference between surveil and inspect
is that surveil is (nonstandard) to keep someone or something under surveillance while inspect is to examine critically or carefully; especially, to search out problems or determine condition; to scrutinize.surveil
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Verb
Bryan A. Garner. A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage (2nd ed., 2001)p. 861
inspect
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Alternative forms
* enspectVerb
(en verb)citation, passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}