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The phrase "a stakeout for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a surveillance operation or monitoring activity, typically conducted by law enforcement or private investigators, to observe a person or location.
Example: "The detectives set up a stakeout for the suspect's house, hoping to catch him in the act."
Alternatives: "a surveillance operation for" or "an observation mission for".
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I have been on a stakeout for two days, but finally the moment I have been waiting for is about to arrive.
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Police found an address for the woman's house and began a stakeout, waiting for Rodriguez to appear, said Laura Vega, a deputy U.S. marshal.
In interviews before publication, the reporter Tom Fiedler confirmed seeing that article for the first time on Saturday, May 2, as he flew to Washington to join a stakeout of Hart's townhouse.
Chief Moose was asked whether illegal aliens might heed him considering that two undocumented workers who happened upon a police stakeout for the sniper Monday in Richmond, Va., were arrested and slated for expulsion even though investigators said they had nothing to do with the sniper.
When early decision letters started arriving, I would drive home immediately after school every day and sit by my bedroom window, like a cop on a stakeout, just waiting for the mail truck to arrive.
The van is equipped with everything you'd need for a stakeout: roof-mounted remote camera, two high-powered computers, some serious batteries for continued operation without idling the engine (dead giveaway), plugs, A/C, and a bunch of other great stuff.
With the address of the fugitive's girlfriend, the bondswomen dig in for a stakeout.
Taking off a turquoise snakeskin jacket and running a comb through his hair, he looked in the mirror: "This is more discreet, right?" Then he invited me to join him for a stakeout.
Mr. Deane parked outside the apartment building of the target, Dylan Kurlansky, 23, on Laurel Hill Terrace on Tuesday morning, and settled in for a stakeout, his gun and a Tupperware container of water balloons at his side.
Artemis and Butler track down 129 possible locations for the ritual and start a stakeout, they discover Holly performing the ritual.
A police officer from Orange, N.J., was fighting for his life last night, one day after a stakeout at a gas station ended in a furious gunfight between police and a robbery suspect.
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