Definition of "stakeout" [stakeout]

• Surveillance of an area, building, or person, especially by the police. (noun)

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• "KOCH: No, there's a camera at our -- what I called our stakeout position."
• "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."
• "I realize the stakeout is an enormous moral and logistical problem."