stake
利害关系,赌注,利害关系人,桩子
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Definitions
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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.
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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.
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- : 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
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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?