Surveillance vs Inspection - What's the difference?
surveillance | inspection |
Close observation of an individual or group; person or persons under suspicion.
Continuous monitoring of disease occurrence for example.
(military, espionage) Systematic observation of places and people by visual, aural, electronic, photographic or other means.
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(legal) In criminal law, an investigation process by which police gather evidence about crimes, or suspected crime, through continued observation of persons or places.
Act of examining something, often closely.
Organization that checks that certain laws or rules are obeyed.
As nouns the difference between surveillance and inspection
is that surveillance is close observation of an individual or group; person or persons under suspicion while inspection is act of examining something, often closely.surveillance
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(wikipedia surveillance)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The threat of terrorism to the British lies in the overreaction to it of British governments. Each one in turn clicks up the ratchet of surveillance , intrusion and security. Each one diminishes liberty.}}
Derived terms
* uberveillanceSee also
* wiretapping * shadowing * tailing * lookout (act) * sousveillance English words not following the I before E except after C rule ----inspection
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Alternative forms
* enspection * (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Upon closer inspection, the animal turned out to be a dolphin, not a shark!
- The inspection fined the restaurant's owner because the kitchen was dirty.
