Dictionary

stake out en · VERB

Meanings

1. (transitive) To watch a location or people, generally covertly.
2. (transitive) To mark off the limits by stakes.
   • Bradley, von Schoenvorts and I, with Miss La Rue's help, staked out the various buildings and the outer wall. When the day was done, we had quite an array of logs nicely notched and ready for our building operations on the morrow, and we were all tired, for after the buildings had been staked out we all fell in and helped with the logging 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VI, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
   • to stake out a new road
   • stake out land
3. (intransitive, qualifier:croquet) To end the game by hitting the stake peg in the middle of the court.

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Deriveds

stakeout

Translations (13)

es estacar (to mark off the limits by stakes) · fr jalonner (to mark off the limits by stakes) · es atisbar (to watch a location or people, generally covertly) · pl określić zakres (to mark off the limits by stakes) · mhr аньыклаш (to mark off the limits by stakes) · pl obserwować (to watch a location or people, generally covertly) · pt demarcar (to mark off the limits by stakes) · de abstecken (to mark off the limits by stakes) · pl śledzić (to watch a location or people, generally covertly) · cs vykolíkovat (to mark off the limits by stakes) · pl zaobserwować (to watch a location or people, generally covertly) · nl afbakenen (to mark off the limits by stakes) · pl określać zakres (to mark off the limits by stakes)