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Stake meaning

  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.
  2. 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 croquet.
  3. 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 stakebody.

Synonyms of Stake

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Using Stake

  • The main meaning on this page is: 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 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 croquet. | 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 stakebody.
  • Useful related words include: post, bet, wager, hazard.
  • In the example corpus, stake often appears in combinations such as: stake in, its stake, new stake.

Example sentences (20)

Stake FSY activities: Stake FSY activities held before and after the FSY conference can help extend the FSY experience and help youth prepare and grow spiritually, as well as create greater unity within the ward and stake.

Chinese tech stocks slid after the Financial Times reported SoftBank was selling down its Alibaba stake, on the heels of Netherlands investor Prosus flagging some selling of its Tencent stake on Wednesday.

ExxonMobil has a 45-percent stake in the Stabroek Block, supported by the New York based Hess Corporation with 30-percent and China National Offshore Oil Corporation with the remaining 25-percent stake.

It will transfer shares equivalent to a 28.4% stake to a French trust so each side will hold the same 15% stake in the other, according to the companies.

The Treasury's stake in NatWest has been cut to 42.95% from 43.97% after the move which is part of its ongoing programme to sell down its stake.

While they accumulated debt for these acquisitions, however, with this stake sale, Pai now has a 30 per cent stake in a much larger pie.

All the state governors are godsons put in office to ensure the continued relevance of the big men who, in addition to being godfathers, call themselves stake holders, as if they have more at stake in our democracy than the rest of us.

Everyone has a stake in this election, of course, but the very wealthy have so much at stake — or at least think they do — that they are perhaps inevitably trying to shape it, too.

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Stake sales in public sector enterprises could help the centre raise as much as Rs 11.5 lakh crore at current market rates even while maintaining a majority stake of 51%, a new report by CareEdge has revealed.

There’s a lot at stake in this election — perhaps more at stake than any other election in American history.

With the finance, Etu Energias acquired a 20% stake in the deepwater Block 14 and a 10% stake in the deepwater Block 14K – situated offshore.

Activist investor Carl Icahn, who has a 4.2 percent stake in HP and a 10.9 percent stake in Xerox, in December urged HP shareholders who agreed with a merger with Xerox to reach out to the PC maker's directors for immediate action.

Owning a stake in a Marquis de Sade scroll or a letter from Gandhi proved irresistible, in large part because that stake was supposed to grow.

This followed the completion of Total Oil's acquisition of 33.334 percent of Tullow Oil's stake thus paving the way for the French oil giant to own a 66.7 percent of upstream stake in the project.

This struggle to sell government’s stake in a piecemeal manner clearly shows that there aren’t too many buyers for the Centre’s stake in these companies.

Promoter and co-founder of the bank, Rana Kapoor and his group entities have sold 2.16 percent stake in the lender, which has brought down their stake in the bank to 4.72 percent.

Renault owns a 43 percent stake in Nissan, which in turn owns a 15 percent stake in the French automaker, though the Japanese company doesn’t have voting rights.

A larger geographic area, made up of a number of wards, is designated as a Stake and led by a Stake President.

BlackRock has an 11 percent stake in American Outdoor Brands, while Vanguard’s stake is 8 percent.

Efforts to resurrect the play locally started more than a year ago when Chapman was asked by her stake president to come up with a stake cultural event.

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Frequently asked questions

How do you use "stake" in a sentence?
An example: "Stake FSY activities: Stake FSY activities held before and after the FSY conference can help extend the FSY experience and help youth prepare and grow spiritually, as well as create greater unity within the ward and stake." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "stake" from authentic English texts.
What does "stake" mean?
Stake means: 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.
What are synonyms of "stake"?
Common synonyms of "stake" include: post, bet, wager, hazard, venture, gamble, stakes, instrument of execution. Plus 7 more synonyms.
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