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stakeout

[ UK /stˈe‍ɪka‍ʊt/ ]
[ US /ˈsteɪˌkaʊt/ ]
NOUN
  1. surveillance of some place or some person by the police (as in anticipation of a crime)

How To Use stakeout In A Sentence

  • KOCH: No, there's a camera at our -- what I called our stakeout position. CNN Transcript Mar 22, 2006
  • So Bob will position himself halfway in between and relay messages from one stakeout to the other! THE MYSTERY OF THE PURPLE PIRATE
  • He now edits Rip It Up and is frontman for TV3's hidden-camera show Stakeout.
  • The first few chapters, which describe a stakeout in which Gunvald Larsson of the homicide squad is reluctantly involved, are brilliant. Reading
  • 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. CNN Transcript Jul 12, 2001
  • Tim left, ate a quick sandwich, and sat stakeout from 11: 30 to 2: 30, in case Bowrick decided to make a lunchtime stop. THE KILL CLAUSE
  • Tim left, ate a quick sandwich, and sat stakeout from 11: 30 to 2: 30, in case Bowrick decided to make a lunchtime stop. THE KILL CLAUSE
  • Sergeant Proulx had said-and a full-time stakeout had been established in a house across the street.
  • Conklin: What is the French word for "stakeout, " huh?
  • There's a railroad dick Edward Brophy who isn't quite sure why he's been asked to stakeout this train, but who begins to suspect that Jace is an "embezzler" when he finds stacks of money — his life savings — in this average joe's suitcase. Sleepers West
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