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stakeout
[steyk-out]
noun
the surveillance of a location by the police, as in anticipation of a crime or the arrival of a wanted person.
the place from which such surveillance is carried out.
something that is bounded or separated by or as if by stakes, especially property, territory, or the like that one identifies or claims as one's own.
stakeout
/ ˈٱɪ첹ʊ /
noun
a police surveillance of an area, house, or criminal suspect
an area or house kept under such surveillance
verb
(tr, adverb) to keep under surveillance
Word History and Origins
Origin of stakeout1
Example Sentences
French media published a photo from the police stakeout, which shows several of the men having coffee and chatting at a Parisian café that winter, just before their arrest.
“We found the car he drove through a few other members that did a stakeout.”
The music cues are refreshingly offbeat; a character whispers the “Green Acres” theme during a nighttime stakeout in a corn field, and the show reprises its fondness for the novelty songs of Roger Miller.
Garland is strongest with impressions: chirping birds over bloody lawns, the laconic humor of exhausted soldiers on a stakeout, a quick shot of Lee deleting some of her own photos, a private mode of self-care.
An abandoned WeWork office — the perfect place for a stakeout — and a running gag about using sitcom names as aliases bring to mind the anti-corporate glint of “Fight Club.”
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