stakes
/steɪks/
stakes is the plural of stake.
stakes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stake.
Noun
stakes pl (plural only)
- The money wagered in gambling
- Risks
- These are the stakes: to make a world in which all of God's children can live or to go into the dark. We must either love each other, or we must die.
- Vote for President Johnson on November 3rd. The stakes are too high for you to stay home.1964 September 7, Lyndon B. Johnson, 0:43 from the start, in "Daisy" Ad (1964): Preserved from 35mm in the Tony Schwartz Collection, National Archives and Records Administration, archived from the...
Meaning of stake
Noun
stake (plural stakes)
- A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.
- We have surveyor's stakes at all four corners of this field, to mark exactly its borders.
- A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet.
- Synonyms:
- peg
- A stick or similar object (e.g., steel channel or angle stock) inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off; often connected in a grid forming a stakebody.
- The piece of timber to which a person condemned to death was affixed to be burned.
- Thomas Cranmer was burnt at the stake.
- A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
- The owners let the managers eventually earn a stake in the business.
- That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
Proper noun capitalized: Stakes
Stakes
- plural of Stake
Words formed from stakes
Phrases with stakes
- ale stakes
- stakes out
- maiden stakes
- stakes a claim
- stakes of Zion
- torture stakes
- pulls up stakes
- corkscrew stakes
- pulled up stakes
- pulling up stakes
- raised the stakes
- raises the stakes
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Words that rhyme with stakes
Questions about stakes
- What does stakes mean?
- Stakes means the money wagered in gambling.
- What is stakes the plural of?
- Stakes is the plural of stake.
- What part of speech is stakes?
- Stakes can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce stakes?
- Stakes is pronounced /steɪks/.
Words near stakes in the dictionary
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