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surveillance_camera

surveillance camera

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Noun

surveillance camera (plural surveillance cameras)

  1. A mounted video camera used for the purpose of surveillance, as part of closed-circuit television.
    • 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
      Coldly perusing his surveillance cameras one day, Mr. Burns spies nothing but grotesque misconduct: Instead of working, his employees engage in limbo contests, chess games, and, of course, cockfights.

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