Words / C1

STAYK/steɪk/

A stake is an interest risked on an outcome, or what you stand to lose: a stake in the company, at stake, raise the stakes. Risk is everyday; a share can be the ownership twin; shareholder (this batch) owns shares. A wooden stake is a post — a second sense. Do not chat out a sample and shrug that the embargo was never “really” at stake.

Meaning

An interest risked on an outcome; also what you stand to lose (at stake).

Examples

• “The embargo is at stake if the sample goes out in a private chat.”
• “Risk is everyday. Interest can mean a share. Stakes (plural) often means how much hangs on it. A steak is meat — a cruel lookalike. Private chat is still a leak path. If the date binds, the sample stays in.”

Good to know

What is risked; a share in an outcome. Everyday: risk. Idiom: at stake. Mix-up: steak. A private chat can still spend the embargo.

Near in meaning

risk

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