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at stake

at stake prepositional phrase: at issue, at risk.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) At issue, at risk.
    • What is at stake in these next 20 minutes is the championship.
    • Doesn't he realize that all of our lives are at stake here too?

at stake meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Arabic and Thai

at stake in Tamil

இடர்நிலையில்

at stake in Kannada

ಈಡಿನಲ್ಲಿ, ನಷ್ಟಶಂಕೆಯಲ್ಲಿ, ಅಪಾಯ ಶಂಕೆಯಲ್ಲಿ

at stake in Arabic

at issue, at risk
عَلَى المِحَكّ ʕalā l-miḥakk

at stake in Thai

at issue, at risk
เป็นเดิมพัน
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at stake in Vietnamese
lâm nguy, bị đe dọa

Origin of at stake

See stake.

Questions about at stake

What does at stake mean?
At stake means at issue, at risk.
What is at stake in Tamil?
At stake in Tamil is இடர்நிலையில். See At stake meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is at stake?
At stake is a prepositional phrase.

Words near at stake in the dictionary

  1. at someone's heels
  2. at someone's service
  3. at someone's throat
  4. at spearpoint
  5. at speed
  6. at stake
  7. at swordpoint
  8. at swords' points
  9. at symbol
  10. at symbols
  11. At Ta'if

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Adapted from Wiktionary: at stake (page history and authors); at stake (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); at stake (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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