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stake out

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stake someone out
watch someone, often secretly. A television news crew staked her out from a next-door neighbor's yard. For a week, police staked out the suspect.
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stake out something
1. to claim something belongs to you. To avoid a long wait to eat lunch, one of you stakes out a table and the other gets the food. Lars staked out a cot in a third-floor bedroom and tried to make it seem like his own space.
2. to secretly watch a place. Private detectives staked out their house, went through their garbage, and interviewed their neighbors.
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