stake
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- noun
- /steɪk/
- John Hutton's report on public sector pensions arrives when the stakes are already high and mass strikes are threatened.
- high stakes
- raise the stakes
- low stakes
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Watch on YouTubeWell, many times they may start to try because of the stakes they perceive in the relationship.
- Well, many times they may start to try because of the stakes they perceive in the relationship.
- Because while we don't set the contest in motion, we have a huge stake in its outcome.
- Now here's where things get trickier, where the stakes are raised.
- But I'm making that choice and I know the stakes.
- Because for me, the stakes are so much lower than they were as a Christian, right?
- You have to assume that this person is never going to change because the stakes are way too high.
- And he says, imagine a person who passes their boredom by gambling everyday, so they place a stake in the hopes that they might win some money.
- Even when everything is major high stakes, there are things that are within your control and things that are not.
- Like, but like part of the reason, like I said, was I would put so much pressure on myself to perform because the stakes really were so high.
- And when they are higher stakes, then they are more daunting and more can be more paralysing.
- So that's what's at stake is her friendship with Lillian.
- And I think that's that's what's at stake here with finance.
- Obviously with live events you got way more at stake, way more work, production cost.
- But my feeling is the missing variable and that was the stakes.
- And but as far as like as far as the the stakes of act three in the stakes of the high tension.
Examples
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You've got Visa, MasterCard, massive corporations with huge stakes in crypto currencies.
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Try it first on something in which the stakes are not very high.
Academic text (1999) -
I limit my equity position to a small stake of no more than 5 percent.
Academic text (2011) -
On the one hand, I had nothing at stake in the outcome of the strike.
Academic text (1993) -
Now you know what's at stake.
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We both have a lot at stake, Cruz.
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You don't seem to understand that there's a million dollars at stake.
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For the upcoming game, each player contributed a stake of $100.
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She decided to increase her stake in the company by investing an additional $10,000.
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With a large stake on the line, he felt the pressure to perform well.
Synonyms
Idioms
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To tie a person to a stake and burn them as punishment or to strongly criticize them in public
- Informal
To risk all your money because you are sure something will happen
Compounds
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A way of killing someone by tying them to a post and setting them on fire as punishment
- US
A brown wading bird like a small heron that lives in reeds and makes a loud booming call
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Etymology
A helpful way to remember the noun stake for money is to think of putting your money down like placing it on a 'stake' in a game. So a stake is what you risk when you bet.