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What does stakeouts mean?

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Rebecca

A "stakeout" is the act of spying on an area or a group of people by watching them from a distance or from inside a vehicle. This term is usually used to describe the monitoring of an area by the police. Ex: The police went on a stakeout in the neighborhood to try and catch the drug smuggler.

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