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Definition: Stakeout |
StakeoutNoun1. Surveillance of some place or some person by the police (as in anticipation of a crime). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You're on loan to Stakeout, Callahan. (Magnum Force; writing credit: Harry Julian Fink; Rita M. Fink) You know, I've never been on a stakeout before. (Stargate SG-1; writing credit: Robert C. Cooper; Brad Wright) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Stakeout! (1962) Stakeout on Dope Street (1958) Captured Cop 2: The Stakeout (1991) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Expression using "stakeout": be on the stakeout. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
stakeout | 19 |
alarm stakeout | 3 |
stakeout varda | 3 |
another stakeout | 2 |
stakeout movie | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "stakeout"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mbikëqyrje (attendance, leading strings, observation, superintendence, supervision, surveillance, tutelage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قام بالمراقبة (be on the stakeout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | surveillance. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מארב (ambuscade). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rendõri megfigyelés, határkijelölés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sorveglianza (custody, invigilation, keeping, oversight, supervision, surveillance, watch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 張り込み . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | はり"み. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | akeoutstay emboscada policial. (various references) отмечать границу вехами. (various references) staviti pod prismotru, omeđati kočićima. (various references) övervakning (monitoring, probation, surveillance). (various references) polis baskısı. (various references) поліцейський нагляд. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stakeout": stakeouts. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stakeout" (pronounced stā"kou't) |
| 5 | -t ā" k ou' t | takeout. |
| 4 | -ā" k ou' t | breakout, shakeout. |
| 3 | -k ou' t | blackout, checkout, cookout, knockout, lockout, lookout, strikeout, walkout, workout. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: outskate, outtakes, takeouts. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-k-o-s-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: outeats, outtake, outtask, takeout. | |
-2 letters: astute, outask, outate, outeat, outsat, outset, setout, statue. | |
-3 letters: autos, saute, skate, stake, state, steak, stoae, stoat, stoke, stout, sutta, takes, taste, tates, tauts, teaks, teats, testa, toast, toeas, tokes, totes, touse, touts, ukase. | |
-4 letters: ates, auks, auto, east, eats, etas, kaes, kats, keas, keto, koas, kues, oaks, oast. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-k-o-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: outskated, outskates, outtasked, stakeouts. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Expressions | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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