Surveillance and Tail

Surveillance

Surveillance noun - The duty or function of watching or guarding for the sake of proper direction or control.

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Tail and surveillance are semantically related. in following topic. In some cases you can use "Tail" instead a noun "Surveillance".

Tail noun - A body of employees or servants who accompany and wait on a person.

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Surveillance and tail are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Surveillance" instead a noun "Tail".

Nearby Words: tailpiece, tailing, tailed, tailless

human	human surveillance	human tail
high	high surveillance	high tail
full	full surveillance	full tail
actual	actual surveillance	actual tail
Other adjectives: massive, white, mechanical, weird.

One man they're following has had training in counter-surveillance and tries various methods to shake a tail, but the Watchers have him in a 'box' so that he'll always travel in the direction of a Watcher, no matter which way he goes.

Source: Incredibly Obvious Tail
Soon as Brody's suicide video tape is found, the CIA restarts surveillance on him, planning to quietly tail him to his terrorist handlers.

Source: Series / Homeland
Police decided to place them under surveillance 24/7 which means that they now have a very obvious tail of at least 2-5 policemen in civilian clothes whenever they leave their home.

Source: Incredibly Obvious Tail

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