surveiling, to surveil?

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:08 PM -0500 2/1/01, Jane P Parker wrote:
>It is interesting to me the couple of online dictionaries I tried the words on
>didn't have it listed.
>I tried to look it up before posting.  I sure sounded weird to me.
>
>Jane Parker
>
It's in the on-line OED, though, with citations back to 1960 (first
cite from a U.S. federal document, perhaps not surprisingly.  I think
of it as being in the same (back-formed) bag as "liaise"

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