📖 Определения и значения для слова stake
📒 money that somebody invests in a company
- a 20 per cent stake in the business
- a controlling/majority/minority stake
- IBM will take an 18 per cent ownership stake in the new company.
📒 a part or share in a business, plan, etc. that will bring you money or other benefits if it succeeds
- She has a personal stake in the success of the play.
- Many young people no longer feel they have a stake in society.
- He has a personal stake in the outcome of the war.
📒 something that you risk losing, especially money, when you try to predict the result of a race, game, etc., or when you are involved in an activity that can succeed or fail
- How much was the stake (= how much did you bet)?
- They were playing cards for high stakes (= a lot of money).
- With only two points separating the top five players, the stakes are high as they enter the final round.
📒 a wooden or metal post that is pointed at one end and pushed into the ground in order to support something, mark a particular place, etc.
- Tall plants can be secured by tying them to stakes.
- He was hammering stakes into the ground.
- The plants are supported with stout stakes.
📒 a wooden post that somebody could be tied to in former times before being burnt to death (= killed by fire) as a punishment
- Joan of Arc was burnt at the stake.
📒 the money that is paid to the winners in horse racing
📒 used in the names of some horse races
📒 that can be won or lost, depending on the success of a particular action
- We cannot afford to take risks when people's lives are at stake.
- The prize at stake is a place in the final.
- With so much at stake, we can't afford to make mistakes.
📒 to be prepared to do anything in order to defend your opinions or beliefs
- He would have gone to the stake for his belief in his daughter’s innocence.
📒 used to say how much of a particular quality a person has, as if they were in a competition in which some people are more successful than others
- John doesn't do too well in the personality stakes.
- She was determined to win in the fashion stakes.
📒 to suddenly move from your house and go to live somewhere else
- He pulled up stakes and went back to France.