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
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Several elusive apex predators have been spotted recently in California — then one showed up on a home security camera wearing a tracking collar.
—Brooke Baitinger, Sacbee.com, 30 May 2025
In footage captured on a Ring security camera and later shared with Newsweek, four dogs, named Mikey, Bindi, Mocha Latte, and Radar, and their four cat companions, Otis, Sampson, Blackie, and Picadillo, can be seen reacting as the home around them momentarily begins shaking.
—Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 May 2025
Watch this 💥 Big boom: A home security camera captured the moment a box truck exploded while passing through a residential neighborhood in Addison, Illinois.
—Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 27 May 2025
Among them: How were the inmates able to leave their cells in the middle of the night, force open the door to Cell 6, tear out the bathroom fixture and cut steel bars — and escape through the loading dock under the watch of security cameras — without anyone raising an alarm?
—Jon Schuppe, NBC news, 24 May 2025
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Brooke Baitinger, Sacbee.com, 30 May 2025
In footage captured on a Ring security camera and later shared with Newsweek, four dogs, named Mikey, Bindi, Mocha Latte, and Radar, and their four cat companions, Otis, Sampson, Blackie, and Picadillo, can be seen reacting as the home around them momentarily begins shaking.
—Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 May 2025
Watch this 💥 Big boom: A home security camera captured the moment a box truck exploded while passing through a residential neighborhood in Addison, Illinois.
—Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 27 May 2025
Among them: How were the inmates able to leave their cells in the middle of the night, force open the door to Cell 6, tear out the bathroom fixture and cut steel bars — and escape through the loading dock under the watch of security cameras — without anyone raising an alarm?
—Jon Schuppe, NBC news, 24 May 2025
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“Security camera.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/security%20camera. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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