Synonym: bet, gamble, peg, post, risk, wager. Similar words: by mistake, take, take out, take up, take on, take off, take for, take to. Meaning: [steɪk] 
n. 1. (law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something 2. a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track) 3. instrument of execution consisting of a vertical post that a victim is tied to for burning 4. the money risked on a gamble. v. 1. put at risk 2. place a bet on 3. mark with a stake 4. tie or fasten to a stake 5. kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole.
n. 1. (law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something 2. a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track) 3. instrument of execution consisting of a vertical post that a victim is tied to for burning 4. the money risked on a gamble. v. 1. put at risk 2. place a bet on 3. mark with a stake 4. tie or fasten to a stake 5. kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole. 
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151) Top line personnel carry much more authority when really critical matters are at stake.
152) Where human life is at stake, a much greater degree of certainty is required.
153) This is partly because of the importance of the interests at stake in immigration decisions: personal safety and liberty.
154) Each of those states has 18 delegates at stake, but the delegates are divided among the leading candidates.
155) At stake is whether the scheme will create more wealth than it destroys.
156) Employees should be given every opportunity to acquire a stake in the business for which they work.
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157) Philips said it took the stake as part of its policy to expand in the new electronic media and cable networks.
158) Obviously the market is having an off day, and this is a marvellous opportunity for you to double your stake.
159) The dispute was all the more bitter because a prize was at stake.
160) What is at stake in this novelty could scarcely be greater.
161) Continental is expected to try and increase its stake - or bid.
162) Some of the problems are highly complex and unique in that lives are at stake depending on their successful resolution.
163) Demand from investors will determine how many new shares are issued, although Pittencrieff said yesterday it will retain a majority stake.
164) In water pollution, however, the evidence is mobile and there may be no complainants with a stake in reporting it.
165) It is unlikely, however, that any Western company will get more than a minority stake in Pilsner Urquell.
166) It acquired its stake in the early 1980s, hoping eventually to acquire the tobacco group.
167) It is only the teachers who have at certain times a real stake in lying.
168) Who put a match to the stake, I am in no position to know.
169) Perhaps it is not reasonable to expect news reporters to sort fact from fiction when complex environmental issues are at stake.
170) Yet the issue at stake, is not merely the content of the final examination.
171) She works for Le Monde, where the staff hold a significant stake in the company.
172) Hanson was fended off, and sold his stake a year later, but the episode had unleashed shock waves.
173) The company had held a 24 per cent stake in the consortium.
174) Mediobanca is being forced to acquire the 10 percent stake after secretly buying that much in October.
175) Seeing him lying in a coffin with a stake through his heart might go some way to convince me.
176) Something similar may also have happened in Martin county, where 9,770 postal votes are at stake.
177) It has an 8 per cent stake, and has admitted working with Gazprom.
178) Alligators are not particularly sociable animals, and big bull gators often will stake out their own ponds.
179) Intransigence and personal suffering highlighted the principle at stake and emphasized the need of fighting for it.
180) Followers of our Placepot feature were in the money yet again yesterday with a ￡98 payout to an ￡8 stake at Towcester.
More similar words: by mistake, take, take out, take up, take on, take off, take for, take to, take care, take away, take down, take time, take over, take place, take after, take apart, take note of, take turns, undertake, take the road, take care of, take charge, take it easy, take the lead, take effect, take part in, take action, take pride in, take notice of, take a chance.