stakeout

[ UK /stˈe‍ɪka‍ʊt/ ]
[ US /ˈsteɪˌkaʊt/ ]
NOUN
  1. surveillance of some place or some person by the police (as in anticipation of a crime)
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How To Use stakeout In A Sentence

  • He's willing to let TV reporters into the chamber for special events and high-profile debates on a case-by-case basis, and he will let them have "stakeout" locations in heavily trafficked parts of the Capitol. C-SPAN denied cameras in the House of Representatives, again
  • For anyone who knows Don, the idea of him running a stakeout is a gas. Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine
  • Jerry: You mean "stakeout" the lobby?
  • Orth told CNN, “In the end, (authorities) reverted to the old gumshoe thing of a stakeout.” How they caught the alleged Craigslist killer
  • They slipped in among the exiting tourists to avoid being noticed by Carl in the tree truck, who was now on the stakeout for Major Karnes. THE MYSTERY OF THE PURPLE PIRATE
  • The police are on a stakeout in our neighborhood.
  • 3 (1) This airborne stakeout was directed at one Jose Padilla, otherwise known as Abdullah al-Muhajir, a Brooklyn-born street thug now identified by investigators as a would-be Qaeda terrorist.
  • Cardenas awoke to a crawling sensation the likes of which he had experienced only once before, twenty years earlier while engaged in a stakeout in a rattrap of a motel in the worst part of Tucson. The Mocking Program
  • He's willing to let TV reporters into the chamber for special events and high-profile debates on a case-by-case basis, and he will let them have "stakeout" locations in heavily-trafficked parts of the Capitol. Why C-SPAN can never get cameras on the House floor
  • He had hated stakeouts when he was on the Byram Hills police force. The Thieves of Darkness
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