stake: 意味と定義

A piece of wood or metal pointed at one end for driving into the ground as a marker, fence pole, or tent peg.

A vertical post to which an offender is bound for execution by burning.

Execution by burning. Used with the: condemned to the stake.

A vertical post secured in a socket at the edge of a platform, as on a truck bed, to help retain the load.

Mormon Church A territorial division consisting of a group of wards under the jurisdiction of a president.

Sports & Games Money or property risked in a wager or gambling game. Often used in the plural. See Synonyms at bet.

Sports & Games The prize awarded the winner of a contest or race.

Sports & Games A race offering a prize to the winner, especially a horserace in which the prize consists of money contributed equally by the horse owners.

A share or an interest in an enterprise, especially a financial share.

Personal interest or involvement: a stake in her children's future.

A grubstake.

To mark the location or limits of with or as if with stakes: stake out a claim.

To claim as one's own: staked out a place for herself in industry.

To fasten, secure, or support with a stake or stakes.

To tether or tie to a stake.

To gamble or risk; hazard.

To provide working capital for; finance.

stake out To assign (a police officer, for example) to an area to conduct surveillance.

stake out To keep under surveillance.

at stake At risk; in question.