stakeout

Noun

Meaning

surveillance of some place or some person by the police (as in anticipation of a crime)

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

guard control following care track observation watch examination surveillance supervision spy bug scrutiny spying lookout
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Antonyms

unobservance

Hypernyms

surveillance

Anagrams

outskate

Examples

Dillinger survives the theater stakeout when the FBI mistakenly guns down his brother and is then blackmailed by Capone into retrieving $15 million from his secret vault. Source: Internet

During the stakeout, the Biograph's manager thought the agents were criminals setting up a robbery. Source: Internet

SRUTHI: And my eyes are totally glazed over, but for Michelle, it’s almost like she was in a stakeout. Source: Internet

To help investigate, Norah and Darcy join her for a sleepover stakeout. Source: Internet

She and her BFF Mary Chris Moss (they bonded in elementary school over weird names) are at a stakeout when they meet the boys. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

stakehorsing stakelike stakenet staker stakes stakes out