stake
/steɪk/
A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay; A share or interest in a business or a given situation; That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded
- plural
- stakes
Meanings
- 1
A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay
Our reputation is at stake.
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There are lives at stake.
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- 2
A share or interest in a business or a given situation
- 3
That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge
- 4
A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquetrare
- 5
A stick or similar object (e.g., steel channel or angle stock) inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off; often connected in a grid forming a stakebodyrare
- 6
The piece of timber to which a person condemned to death was affixed to be burnedrare
- 7
A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching hole in or cutting a work piece, or for specific forming techniques etcrare
- 8
A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical arearare