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CCTV - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

CCTV (countable and uncountable, plural CCTVs)

  • Initialism of Closed-Circuit TeleVision; video surveillance.
    • Two months later Devon walked into Khandi’s Gem Express and Jewellery on the high road, with a kid from south Kilburn, Curtis Ainger, and a gun. Smile, you’re on CCTV. Nineteen when he went in. Twenty-three, this summer.1
    • There is CCTV in the coach, so anyone planning to pilfer a flapjack may well be seen!2
    • “I think it’s fair to anticipate that the use of CCTV and facial recognition technology in Hong Kong will begin to look a lot like those in mainland China over time,” she said.3

Proper noun

CCTV

  • (broadcasting, China) Initialism of China Central Television.

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

  1. 2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 165:

  2. 2019 October 23, Pip Dunn, “The next king of Scotland”, in Rail, page 52:

  3. 2024 October 5, Jessie Yeung, “Hong Kong plans to install thousands of surveillance cameras. Critics say it’s more proof the city is moving closer to China”, in CNN:

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