to explain your opinion clearly and defend it in a determined way
to mark an area with fences or posts to show that it belongs to someone
to wait outside a building and watch it, especially because something exciting or illegal is happening
"We should stake out drugstores in the area in case he tries to break in for more drugs," Yale said.
Political leaders are busy staking out their positions on this issue.
The police are staking out his home in case he returns.
The settlers would arrive in a place and immediately stake out their territory.
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There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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