stakes
See also: Stakes
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /steɪks/
- Rhymes: -eɪks
Audio (US) (file) - Homophone: steaks
Noun
stakes
- plural of stake
Noun
stakes pl (plural only)
- The money wagered in gambling
- Risks
- 1964 September 7, Johnson, Lyndon B., "Daisy" Ad (1964): Preserved from 35mm in the Tony Schwartz Collection, National Archives and Records Administration, 0:43 from the start:
- 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.
- 2012 May 9, John Percy, “Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2-3 on agg): match report”, in the Telegraph:
- Holloway has unfinished business in the Premier League after relegation last year and he will make a swift return if he can overcome West Ham a week on Saturday. Sam Allardyce, the West Ham manager, will be acutely aware that when the stakes are high, Blackpool are simply formidable.
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Verb
stakes
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of stake
Anagrams
- Keasts, Skates, Skeats, askest, skates, steaks
Middle English
Noun
stakes
- plural of stake
Swedish
Noun
stakes
- indefinite genitive singular of stake.
Anagrams
- stekas