stakenoun [ C ]
uk/steɪk/us/steɪk/stake noun [ C ] (SHARE)
a share or a financial involvement in something such as a business:
If you have a stake in something, it is important to you because you have a personal interest or involvement in it:
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- He has no financial stake in the company.
- With a 50 percent stake in the company, it must be tempting to cash it in.
- Walker will retain a 30 percent stake in the business.
- They had planned to buy a 20 percent stake in the company.
- He left his wife and family a 38 percent stake in the largest store group in the world.
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Stock markets
- arbitrage
- bear
- bourse
- buy-in
- cash
- cash out sth
- dead cat bounce
- dividend
- Dow Jones
- haircut
- intangible asset
- investment
- mature
- maturity
- negotiable
- rogue trader
- speculation
- stockbroker
- stockholder
- trading
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stake noun [ C ] (RISK)
the amount of money that you risk on the result of something such as a game or competition:
In an activity or competition, the stakes are the reward for the person who wins or succeeds in it:
used in the names of horse races in which the prize money is provided by all the owners of the horses that are competing in the race
a situation where someone is judged on how much of a particular quality they have:
to increase the prize or reward in a competition or any activity in which you are competing
to make a situation more urgent or more difficult to ignore:
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- I gamble occasionally, but only for small stakes.
- What are the stakes?
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Gambling & bookmaking
- ante
- bank
- banker
- bet
- betting
- bookmaker
- cockfight
- dice
- draw
- gamble
- gaming table
- grab bag
- heads or tails? idiom
- high roller
- juke joint
- lose
- lucky dip
- spin a coin idiom
- tombola
- toss
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stake noun [ C ] (STICK)
a strong stick or metal bar with a pointed end:
in the past, a wooden post to which people were tied before being burned to death as a punishment:
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Poles, rods, shafts and sticks
- bar
- baton
- billy club
- boathook
- bollard
- broomstick
- cane
- lightning conductor
- maypole
- pointer
- rod
- rung
- shaft
- shooting stick
- spoke
- telephone pole
- totem pole
- truncheon
- utility pole
- waddy
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Idiom(s)
stakeverb [ T ]
uk/steɪk/us/steɪk/stake verb [ T ] (RISK)
to risk an amount of money:
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Gambling & bookmaking
- ante
- bank
- banker
- bet
- betting
- bookmaker
- cockfight
- dice
- draw
- gamble
- gaming table
- grab bag
- heads or tails? idiom
- high roller
- juke joint
- lose
- lucky dip
- spin a coin idiom
- tombola
- toss
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stake verb [ T ] (USE STICK)
to hold up and support something by fastening it to stakes:
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Fastening and tying
- attach
- be locked together idiom
- board sth up
- bolt
- bound
- bow 1
- buckle
- buckle up
- hobble
- ligature
- mount
- nail
- put sth up
- reef knot
- rivet
- rope
- tie
- twist tie
- tying
- yoke
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