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Meaning of superveillance | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2
/ˌsupɚˈveɪ.ləns/

Definitions

Supervision taken too far, bordering on surveillance.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Even the curiosity of royalty was excited; and His Majesty George III., with that degree of bonhommie which led him to inquire into the private circumstances of many of his subjects, who little thought of such inquisitorial superveillance, condescended to make himself master of the secret.”
“There are now about 1400 police stations in the country, each having under its superveillance an average area of about 14,000 stature acres.”
“It could be further mentioned that bourgeois individualist civil society need the fallback of an authoritarian state with a high degree of superveillance to sustain the power relations intrinsic to it.”
“A gang, including Deepika’s Serena, has stolen from the super-secretive government agency that Marke works for, a super-superveillance tool that controls satellites and what not — enough for a “global paradigm shift” — and looks exactly like your average set-top box (what are the chances this unfortunate resemblance was pointed out to the filmmakers?). It is called ‘Pandora’s Box’, and it is not a box.”
“Consequently, firms who have a mix of requirements should look for solutions that help to improve the efficiency of established supervisory processes, while providing the analytics to uncover the unknown. Rather than looking for products that address “Heightened Supervision”, I’ll offer an alternative phrase stolen from my colleague Gregory Breeze – Superveillance.”
“As follow up on the earlier post that described the collision of supervision and surveillance as ‘Superveillance,’ we want to dive deeper into key principles and attributes that firms should consider as they seek solutions that go beyond the boundaries of traditional supervisory and surveillance tools.”
“Superveillance extends the boundaries of traditional supervisory review — it does not replace or diminish the importance of managing day-to-day tasks more efficiently or effectively.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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