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stakes out

stakes out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stake out.

Meaning of stake out

Verb

stake out (third-person singular simple present stakes out, present participle staking out, simple past and past participle staked out)

  1. (transitive) To watch a location or people, generally covertly.
  2. (transitive) To mark off the limits by stakes.
    • stake out land
  3. (intransitive, croquet) To end the game by hitting the stake peg in the middle of the court.

Questions about stakes out

What is stakes out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Stakes out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stake out.

Words near stakes out in the dictionary

  1. stakers
  2. stakes
  3. stakes a claim
  4. stakes of Zion
  5. stakes one's life
  6. stakes out
  7. stakest
  8. stakeswin
  9. stakeswinner
  10. stakeswinners
  11. stakeswinning

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stakes out (page history and authors); stake out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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