Definitions for stakes

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stakes stake

Spelling: [steyk]

IPA: /steɪk/

Stakes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 105 anagrams from letters in stakes (aeksst).

Definitions for stakes

noun

1. 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.
2. a post to which a person is bound for execution, usually by burning.
3. the stake, the punishment of death by burning:
4. 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.
5. Mormon Church. a division of ecclesiastical territory, consisting of a number of wards presided over by a president and two counselors.
6. sett (def 2).
7. something that is wagered in a game, race, or contest.
8. a monetary or commercial interest, investment, share, or involvement in something, as in hope of gain:
9. a personal or emotional concern, interest, involvement, or share:
10. the funds with which a gambler operates.
11. Often, stakes. a prize, reward, increase in status, etc., in or as if in a contest.
12. stakes, Poker. the cash values assigned to the various colored chips, various bets, and raises:
13. a grubstake.

Idioms

1. pull up stakes, Informal. to leave one's job, place of residence, etc.; move:
2. at stake, in danger of being lost, as something that has been wagered; critically involved.

Verb phrases

1. stake out, to keep (a suspect) under police surveillance. to appoint (a police officer) to maintain constant watch over a suspect or place.

verb (used with object)

1. to mark with or as if with stakes (often followed by off or out):
2. to possess, claim, or reserve a share of (land, profit, glory, etc.) as if by marking or bounding with stakes (usually followed by out or off):
3. to separate or close off by a barrier of stakes.
4. to support with a stake or stakes, as a plant:
5. to tether or secure to a stake, as an animal:
6. to fasten with a stake or stakes.
7. to risk (something), as upon the result of a game or the occurrence or outcome of any uncertain event, venture, etc.:
8. to furnish (someone) with necessaries or resources, especially money:

Origin of stakes

before 900; (noun) Middle English; Old English staca pin; cognate with Dutch staak, German Stake, Old Norse -staki (in lȳsistaki candlestick); akin to stick¹

Examples for stakes

Lined them with stakes and bushes to keep them from filling in.

The confidence of the public in his honesty was as great a reward as the stakes.

You must have seen something, girl, that reminded you of stakes.

To make sure of success and the size of his stakes he was willing to invest heavily.

Mattup kept winning, and "suggested" that we raise the stakes.

But the stakes are too high this Tuesday for any woman to stay home.

Given the stakes, some in Hong Kong believe China will move soon.

The stakes of each disturbance rise accordingly—increasing the sense of general crisis and emergency washing over the globe.

The stakes are high: A Texas state adoption of a textbook means a very lucrative sale.

These stakes have created a financial arms race that almost certainly will make this election historically expensive.