stakeout

POS

Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)

HYPHEN

stake=out

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun stakeout has 1 sense

stakeout(n = noun.act) Array - surveillance of some place or some person by the police (as in anticipation of a crime); Array

is a kind of

surveillance

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THESAURUS

stakeout

bugging, cloak-and-dagger work, counterespionage, counterintelligence, electronic surveillance, espial, espionage, following, intelligence, intelligence work, military intelligence, observation, secret police, secret service, shadowing, spying, surveillance, tailing, trailing, wiretap, wiretapping

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