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Supervise vs Stakeout - What's the difference?

supervise | stakeout |

As a verb supervise

is .

As a noun stakeout is

the act of watching a location and/or people, generally covertly.

supervise

English

Verb

(supervis)
  • To direct, manage, or oversee; to be in charge
  • *, chapter=19
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}
  • (obsolete) To look over so as to read; to peruse.
  • * 1590 , , IV. ii. 120:
    • Let me supervise the canzonet.

    Related terms

    * supervision * supervisor * supervisory

    stakeout

    English

    (wikipedia stakeout)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of watching a location and/or people, generally covertly.
    • The police had a stakeout in place where they expected the crime to occur.

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