at stake
C2 If something that is valuable is at stake, it is in a situation where it might be lost:
Thousands of lives will be at stake if emergency aid does not arrive in the city soon.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Unsafe and insecure
- be on the line idiom
- day
- endangered
- exposed
- hang
- indefensible
- insecure
- jeopardy
- precarious
- precariously
- shadow
- sketchy
- stake
- struggle
- threat
- unattended
- unbalanced
- unguarded
- unsafe
- unstable
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