to stake
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5.3
- verb
- /steɪk/
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- I'd stake my career on it.
- stake your reputation
- stake your future
Happiness, that is one of the things that you are staking or risking.
- Happiness, that is one of the things that you are staking or risking.
- Don't, don't never stake your happiness on the idea that he might be in denial.
- And this is even with staking liquidity potentially coming pretty soon here.
- Basically, it's saying don't stake everything on one thing lest it doesn't work out.
- And given how high of a probability it is, is enough for me to put a pretty good stake on planting out our garden.
- exchanges, custodians to stake or build out functionality for staking on their platforms. So
- You know, I so my accounts on Kraken, I can stake, I think I stake Ethereum, I can stake polka dot is there do you?
Examples
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Are you really willing to stake your reputation on this story?
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I'm an aerospace engineer, and I would stake my reputation on the fact that those designs are genuine.
Fiction book (1999) -
I'd stake my life on it.
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I'd stake my job on it.
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I'll stake the cash equivalent.
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You have enough confidence in this gadget to stake your life on it under these circumstances?
Fiction book (1996) -
I'm willing to stake my entire life's work.
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I know where you're headed with this, but I'll stake my reputation.
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The military services have responded by staking everything on one or two expensive flagship items.
Academic text (1999) -
Are you really willing to stake your reputation on this story?
Synonyms
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1.5
To risk money on the result of an event
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6.3
Put someone or something in danger of harm
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3.7
To risk money guessing which result will happen
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4.2
To do something risky hoping to get a good result
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7.6
To bet money on the result of a sports event
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5.1
To risk something important to try to gain something
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8.5
To risk everything you own on one decision
Antonyms
Idioms
- NSFW
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9.8
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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9.9
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
How Risky
Surface Forms
Etymology
Stake as a verb meaning to risk comes from the same idea of putting something down as a 'stake' in a bet. So to stake money or your reputation is to risk it on the result.