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21stake (out) a claim (on something) — stake (out) a/your ˈclaim (to/for/on sth) idiom to say or show publicly that you think sth should be yours • Adams staked his claim for a place in the Olympic team with his easy win yesterday. Main entry: ↑stakeidiom …
22stake (out) your claim (on something) — stake (out) a/your ˈclaim (to/for/on sth) idiom to say or show publicly that you think sth should be yours • Adams staked his claim for a place in the Olympic team with his easy win yesterday. Main entry: ↑stakeidiom …
23stake out — stake (someone) out watch someone, often secretly. A television news crew staked her out from a next door neighbor s yard. For a week, police staked out the suspect …
24stake out — 1) builders staked out the plot Syn: mark off/out, demarcate, measure out, delimit, fence off, section off, close off, shut off, cordon off 2) informal the police staked out his apartment Syn: observe, watch …
25stake out — lay claim to, stake; observe, keep under surveillance. See possession, care …
26stake out — Synonyms and related words: bound, bug, case, circle in, circumscribe, define, delimit, delimitate, demarcate, determine, enclose, fix, lay off, make a reconnaissance, mark boundaries, mark off, mark out, mark the periphery, peep, play the spy,… …
27ˌstake ˈout sth — phrasal verb to explain your opinion clearly and defend it in a determined way Political leaders are busy staking out their positions on this issue.[/ex] …
28stake out — transitive verb Date: 1951 1. to assign (as a police officer) to an area usually to conduct a surveillance 2. to maintain a stakeout of 3. to claim as one s own …
29stake-out — see stakeout …
30stake out — act of keeping watch, act of conducting surveillance …
