1) Mark with pegs 2) Plan to catch a criminal 3) Police action 4) Police surveillance 5) Surveillance 6) Surveillance by the police 1) Shadowing 2) Sittingoperation 3) Surveillance 
A stakeout is the coordinated surveillance of a location or person. Generally performed covertly and for the purpose of gathering evidence (related to criminal activity). The term derives from the practice by land surveyors of using survey stakes to measure out an area before the main building project is commenced. ...[Transformers] Stakeout is the name of two fictional characters from the Transformers. They are both heroic Autobots. ==Transformers: Generation 1== Stakeout is the young leader of the Rescue Patrol. ===Marvel Comics=== When Thunderwing abducts the Micromaster Battle Patrol to learn the secrets of making Micromasters for the Decepticons Emi...
Stakeout is slang for a police surveillance of an area, house, or criminal suspect.
[n] - surveillance of some place or some person by the police (as in anticipation of a crime)
slang for a police surveillance of an area, house, or criminal suspect.
noun surveillance of some place or some person by the police (as in anticipation of a crime)
the surveillance of a location by the police, as in anticipation of a crime or the arrival of a wanted person. · the place from which such surveillance is carried out. · something that is bounded or separated by or as if by stakes, esp. property, territory, or the like that one identifies or claims as one's own.