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

The co-conspirators burned the stores to force their closure and then shut off power to the security cameras, which enabled them to return to the unguarded locations to burglarize the ATMs. —Adam Bednar, Baltimore Sun, 21 Apr. 2026

But police say security camera footage showed the car was not moving when 32-year-old Samuel Saint Remy fired into the passenger side 15 times, critically wounding the driver. —Updated April 20, Miami Herald, 20 Apr. 2026

Liza Demming, a neighbor who lives two houses down from the residence where most victims were shot, told The Associated Press that her security camera captured video of the gunman running away and the sounds of two shots. —Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026

Liza Demming, who lives two houses down from where most of the victims were shot, said her security camera captured video of the suspect running away along with the sound of two shots. —ABC News, 20 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1954, in the meaning defined above