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stake

/steyk/US // steɪk //UK // (steɪk) //

利害关系,赌注,利害关系人,桩子

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : a stick or post pointed at one end for driving into the ground as a boundary mark, part of a fence, support for a plant, etc.
    • : a post to which a person is bound for execution, usually by burning.
    • : the stake, the punishment of death by burning: Joan of Arc was sentenced to the stake.
    • : one of a number of vertical posts fitting into sockets or staples on the edge of the platform of a truck or other vehicle, as to retain the load.
    • : Mormon Church. a division of ecclesiastical territory, consisting of a number of wards presided over by a president and two counselors.
    • : sett.
v.有主动词 verb
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    staked, stak·ing.

    • : to mark with or as if with stakes: We staked out the boundaries of the garden.
    • : to possess, claim, or reserve a share of as if by marking or bounding with stakes: I'm staking out ten percent of the profit for myself.
    • : to separate or close off by a barrier of stakes.
    • : to support with a stake or stakes, as a plant: to stake tomato vines.
    • : to tether or secure to a stake, as an animal: They staked the goat in the back yard.
    • : to fasten with a stake or stakes.
  1. 1
    • : stake out, to keep under police surveillance.to appoint to maintain constant watch over a suspect or place.

Phrases

  • stake a claim
  • stake out
  • at stake
  • burn at the stake
  • have a stake in
  • pull up stakes

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • The latest iteration of that is TikTok’s deal with Oracle that will reportedly set up a new US entity to house the short video app, with the US software giant taking a minority stake and managing user data.

  • If the edited embryos result in a baby, his or her offspring will also inherit the edited DNA—thus dramatically raising the stakes.

  • When the stakes are high, and the gatekeepers of reproduction and survival are other minds, competition and manipulation become central.

  • So fintech startups that sell fractional stakes in those assets have surged during the pandemic.

  • It’s really helped lay the table stakes of what we believe in and care about.

  • We can, due to the critical issues at stake, also go one more step and impose an embargo.

  • Think about it: Dodd-Frank was explicitly passed to drive a stake through the heart of the implicit concept of “too big to fail.”

  • At stake is not just the 21 photos that were originally ordered to be released.

  • Then as now, we all are at stake, and sooner or later, we all must make a stand.

  • Paul has consistently used Benghazi as a device to stake out high ground on foreign policy.

  • On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.

  • The Duke, as well as his friend, had much at stake in bringing this part of his negociation to bear.

  • I watched her narrowly, and would stake my life on it she is only the more dangerous for being the less open.

  • It would not take two minutes to convert him from the inquisitor to the martyr at the stake.

  • And the quail, perched on the fence-stake, would she address herself to us or to Mr. Robert White down in the meadow?