Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Surveillance of an area, building, or person, especially by the police.
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- noun The act of
watching a location, generallycovertly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun surveillance of some place or some person by the police (as in anticipation of a crime)
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Examples
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KOCH: No, there's a camera at our -- what I called our stakeout position.
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You'll see visiting heads of state tend to go into the entrance; when they leave, we show pictures, or when congressmen or others come to what we call a stakeout at the White House, to speak to reporters, you see the West Wing entrance behind them.
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I realize the stakeout is an enormous moral and logistical problem.
The Riverman Robert D. Keppel 2005
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I realize the stakeout is an enormous moral and logistical problem.
The Riverman Robert D. Keppel 2005
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I realize the stakeout is an enormous moral and logistical problem.
The Riverman Robert D. Keppel 2005
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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 2009
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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 Rachel Weiner 2011
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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 Rachel Weiner 2011
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When he joined the regular press mob for a stakeout of Mr. Powell - "They say 'stakeout' so you don't feel so much like a sheep" - one press veteran told him that there'd been better access in the old Soviet Union.
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Many of the pictures were of such poor quality that it seemed they had been taken as part of some kind of stakeout; they had the nature of private-eye photographs slowly developing in a chemical bath, and this greatly added to the sense that they really were somehow "explosive" and "revealing."
The Tabloid Habit 2001
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