security camera

noun

plural security cameras

: a camera (especially a video camera) that is usually permanently mounted and that is used to monitor activity in an area (such as a parking lot or a building's entranceway)

There's no guardhouse here … just a discreet automatic gate with a discreet speaker box and a small security camera on a post.

—Richard Ford

Examples of security camera in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Sierra Wynn said the security camera alerted them to an animal in the front yard of their Palm Bay home, south of Cape Canaveral, in the middle of the night last week. — Steven Yablonski, Miami Herald, 23 July 2026

The moment was captured by a street security camera in the city of Jonesboro and shared on social media by local police, who thanked Hellenthal for helping the man reach safety across the crosswalk. — ABC News, 23 July 2026

Turns out, when Golding bought Kiffin's house in Oxford, Lane still had access to the Ring security cameras at his old residence. — Trey Wallace Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 July 2026

Two minutes later, a neighbor’s security camera recorded Burke walking back toward the house, Byers said, as screenshots from the video were shown on the courtroom screen. — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1954, in the meaning defined above