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stake-out

1942, from stake (v.2) + out (adv.).

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The Jackson case was also a very politicized trial, both sides deliberately angling for a long-term legal precedent that would stake-out big claims for their interests in cyberspace.

Both men remembered a recent Special Branch blunder which had involved the use of directional microphones in one of their stake-outs.