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high-stakes

high-stakes adjective: involving large costs or rewards.

Adjective

high-stakes (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Involving large costs or rewards.
    • But it was in the early 2000s that the high-stakes TV pop contest really arrived, along with promises that it would propel a few lucky auditionees to obscene levels of success and fame.2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC

Questions about high-stakes

What does high-stakes mean?
High-stakes means involving large costs or rewards.
What part of speech is high-stakes?
High-stakes is an adjective.

Words near high-stakes in the dictionary

  1. high-speed rail
  2. high-speed steel
  3. high-speed steels
  4. high-spirited
  5. high-spiritedness
  6. high-stakes
  7. high-status
  8. high-step
  9. high-stepped
  10. high-stepper
  11. high-steppers

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