stakeout

1. n. a person who is positioned to observe someone or something. (see also stake someone/something out.) The stakeout stuck out like a sore thumb—standing there under the streetlight reading a paper. The stakeout was one of Marlowe’s best operatives.

2. n. a (police) assignment where someone is positioned to observe someone or something. The stakeout at the warehouse backfired. They only found cats.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Madhava	-	Sanskrit, Hinduism
Galloway	['gæləwei]
Priyanka	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali
Khwaja	-	Persian
Titus	TI-tuws (Ancient Roman), TIE-təs (English)	Ancient Roman, English, Biblical, Biblical Latin
Thutmose	thoot-MO-sə (English), thoot-MOS (English)	Ancient Egyptian (Anglicized)