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to establish or make clear your opinion or position on something: Two of the president's chief advisers have staked out opposite positions on this issue. New software companies are going to find it hard staking out a position in an already crowded market. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
stake out. British. phrasal verb. If you stake out a position that you are stating or a claim that you are making, you are defending the boundaries or limits of the position or claim. I am trying to stake out a position between extremes. [VERB PARTICLE noun] He staked out a strong claim for the leadership of the party.
stake someone or something out. 1. to position a person so that someone or something can be observed or followed. The cops staked the car out and made the arrest. Barlowe staked out the apartment building and watched patiently for an hour. 2. to position a person to observe someone or something.
Stake out definition: the surveillance of a location by the police, as in anticipation of a crime or the arrival of a wanted person.. See examples of STAKE OUT used in a sentence.
1. To mark the location or limits of something with or as if with stakes: We walked the boundary of the property and staked it out with orange flags. Pioneers raced to stake out a claim in the new territory. 2. To claim something as one's own: We ran ahead of the others to stake out a campsite.
stakeout. noun [ C ] uk / ˈsteɪk.aʊt / us / ˈsteɪk.aʊt /. Add to word list. the continuous watching of a building or area, especially by the police. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Detection & solving crimes. all-points bulletin. ankle bracelet.
stake something ↔ out. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English stake something ↔ out phrasal verb informal 1 to watch a place secretly and continuously → stakeout Police officers have been staking out the warehouse for weeks. 2 to mark or control a particular area so that you can have it or use it We went to the show early to ...
