stakes
赌注,桩子,摊位,利害关系
Related Words
Definitions
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- : a stick or post pointed at one end for driving into the ground as a boundary mark, part of a fence, support for a plant, etc.
- : a post to which a person is bound for execution, usually by burning.
- : the stake, the punishment of death by burning: Joan of Arc was sentenced to the stake.
- : one of a number of vertical posts fitting into sockets or staples on the edge of the platform of a truck or other vehicle, as to retain the load.
- : Mormon Church. a division of ecclesiastical territory, consisting of a number of wards presided over by a president and two counselors.
- : sett.
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staked, stak·ing.
- : to mark with or as if with stakes: We staked out the boundaries of the garden.
- : to possess, claim, or reserve a share of as if by marking or bounding with stakes: I'm staking out ten percent of the profit for myself.
Phrases
- stake a claim
- stake out
- at stake
- burn at the stake
- have a stake in
- pull up stakes
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Allowing the protests to go on with little interference was always a high-stakes gamble.
Indeed, it may never unless Western powers start raising the political stakes.
But the stakes are too high this Tuesday for any woman to stay home.
These stakes have created a financial arms race that almost certainly will make this election historically expensive.
It will go to the Shia majority and is the subject of an ongoing struggle with very high stakes indeed.
These stakes are gold only as yet, and no man's venture seems over five pounds.
Again the young fellow repeats his fatal "Banco," as he stakes a fresh pile of notes handed to him by the obsequious Jew.
It was a sad day for Ramona and Alessandro when the kindly Hyers pulled up their tent-stakes and left the valley.
The body was resting upon a plank supported by four stakes and covered with skins.
The stakes were too rough to admit the possibility of any finger-prints that might be microscopically detected.