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Stake   /steɪk/   Listen
Stake

noun
1.
(law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something.  Synonym: interest.  "A stake in the company's future"
2.
A pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track).  Synonym: post.  "The corner of the lot was indicated by a stake"
3.
Instrument of execution consisting of a vertical post that a victim is tied to for burning.
4.
The money risked on a gamble.  Synonyms: bet, stakes, wager.
5.
A strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end so it can be driven into the ground.
verb
(past & past part. staked; pres. part. staking)
1.
Put at risk.  Synonyms: adventure, hazard, jeopardize, venture.
2.
Place a bet on.  Synonyms: back, bet on, gage, game, punt.  "I'm betting on the new horse"
3.
Mark with a stake.  Synonym: post.
4.
Tie or fasten to a stake.
5.
Kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole.  Synonym: impale.



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"Stake" Quotes from Famous Books



... like the court of old France under Catherine de Medici; only this time it was Industrial Unionism instead of Huguenots who were being Marked for a new night of St. Bartholomew. The heresy to be uprooted was belief in industrial instead of religious freedom; but the stake and the gibbet were awaiting the New Idea just ...
— The Centralia Conspiracy • Ralph Chaplin
... jumps on to the platform as a lecturer. He may have been "Perhaps a soldier full of 'cute ways, and fearless like his Pa! Stake your dollar sudden and quick to boom. Seeking a bauble reputation even at the Commons mouth." Or he may have been an aristocratic stowaway in a troop-ship, for instance, and become the hero in the pages of our new English-Americanised ...
— The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) • Harry Furniss
... answered. "If I had my way, you would very soon see that one man wouldn't have so much more stake in the country than another. Then Universal Suffrage follows automatically—in fact that's the way I'd ...
— A People's Man • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... labor urges against this use of the injunction is that it deprives the defendant of a jury trial when his liberty is at stake. The unions have always insisted that the law should be so modified that this right would accompany all injunctions growing out of labor disputes. Such a denatured injunction, however, would defeat the purpose of ...
— The Armies of Labor - Volume 40 in The Chronicles Of America Series • Samuel P. Orth
... sprung, and keenly surveyed the enemy's position and his own, calculating his "chances" with as much anxiety as if life and honour were at stake. He did not dream of turning aside, or trying to reach any harbour of refuge save his own voe; but he knew that to pass the Laulie in safety would require considerable ...
— Viking Boys • Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby


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