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Stakeout

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of watching a location or people, generally covertly.

    "The police had a stakeout in place where they expected the crime to occur."

  2. 2
    surveillance of some place or some person by the police (as in anticipation of a crime) wordnet

Etymology

Deverbal from stake out.

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