stakeout

IPA: stˈeɪkaʊt

noun

  • The act of watching a location and/or people, generally covertly.
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Examples of "stakeout" in Sentences

  • I realize the stakeout is an enormous moral and logistical problem.
  • For anyone who knows Don, the idea of him running a stakeout is a gas.
  • KOCH: No, there's a camera at our -- what I called our stakeout position.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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."

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