stake in English

noun

1

a strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end, driven into the ground to support a tree, form part of a fence, act as a boundary mark, etc..

A row of more than 15 bricks, pieces of concrete, metal poles, wooden stakes and a traffic cone were balanced on the track in a blatant act of sabotage.

synonyms: post, pole, stick, spike, upright, support, prop, strut, pale, paling, picket, pile, piling, cane

2

a wooden post to which a person was tied before being burned alive as a punishment.

Opinions and beliefs which are popular need no protection - it's the hard and unpopular ones that people get stoned and burned at the stake for.

3

a territorial division of the Mormon Church under the jurisdiction of a president.

Congregations are organized into stakes and districts, which belong to a temple district.

4

a sum of money or something else of value gambled on the outcome of a risky game or venture.

playing dice for high stakes

synonyms: bet, wager, ante

verb

1

support (a tree or plant) with a stake or stakes.

Trees are frequently staked for support after planting and there is much debate as to whether these should be long stakes, short stakes or even slanting stakes.

synonyms: prop up, tie up, tether, support, hold up, brace, truss

2

mark an area with stakes so as to claim ownership of it.

the boundary between the two ranches was properly staked out

3

gamble (money or something else of value) on the outcome of a game or race.

one gambler staked everything he'd got and lost

synonyms: bet, wager, lay, put on, gamble, chance, venture, risk, hazard

4

give financial or other support to.

he staked him to an education at the École des Beaux-Arts

noun

post, pole, stick, spike, upright, support, prop, strut, pale, paling, picket, pile, piling, cane
bet, wager, ante
prize money, purse, pot, winnings
competition, contest, battle, challenge, rivalry, race, running, struggle, scramble
share, interest, ownership, involvement
wager, bet, stakes
interest
post

verb

prop up, assert, bet, jeopardize, bet on, impale, post
prop up, tie up, tether, support, hold up, brace, truss
assert, declare, proclaim, state, make, lay, put in
bet, wager, lay, put on, gamble, chance, venture, risk, hazard
jeopardize, venture, hazard, adventure
bet on, back, punt, game, gage
impale
post

Use "stake" in a sentence

1. Stake clerk

2. The stake!

3. Stake leaders notify ward leaders of stake activities well in advance.

4. A stake president and his two counselors preside over each stake.

5. The Bickern, T-Stake, or Stake Anvil was needed for those jobs

6. Nailed to a stake

7. Lives were at stake!

8. The stake has 12 high councilors who help do the Lord’s work in the stake.

9. Bentwood Ward, North Logan Stake

10. Mocked while on the stake

11. Faust for a stake reorganization.

12. So now to stake this rubber tree, we make stake, to play Balafon for that

13. I can stake with you.

14. A member of the stake presidency or an assigned high councilor may call stake activities directors.

15. Thoma Bravo took a minority stake in the new company, and Intel maintains a 49% stake.

16. Faust to a stake conference.

17. Precious lives are at stake.

18. They don't have the stake.

19. There's too much at stake.

20. My honour is at stake.

21. I'd stake my all on it.

22. You two stake out the compound.

23. The family honour is at stake.

24. Heretics were burnt at the stake .

25. Heretics were burned at the stake.

26. A lot was at stake here.

27. If the stake presidency organizes a stake activities committee, they assign a high councilor to be the committee chairman.

28. Millions of lives are at stake.

29. Jesus died on an upright stake.

30. Too many lives are at stake.

31. But wider issues are at stake.

32. Our children's education is at stake.

33. Blacksmith Offset Stake Hardie Bickern Handmade

34. Returned missionaries are now stake presidents.

35. He eventually became a stake president.

36. With a stake through the heart.

37. Lives are at stake around here.

38. your reputations, as employees, are at stake.

39. Your very life might be at stake!

40. Buffett's new stake is worth $133 million

41. The projects at stake are the following:

42. Understand what's at stake for you, doctor.

43. I drove a stake through her heart.

44. Then visit alm brand new equity stake.

45. Do you know what's at stake here?

46. Suspected witches were burnt at the stake .

47. An Innocent King Suffers on the Stake

48. This decision puts our lives at stake.

49. The future of mankind is at stake.

50. Stake Anvil or Bickern with Decorated Shield