Collocations for "stake"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "stake" in context.
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stake
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [small, large, 10 percent] stake (in a company)
- a [boundary, fence, wood] stake
- [buy, sell, acquire, own] a stake
- has a stake in the [business, company, start-up]
- his [future, livelihood, life, investment] is at stake
- is a lot at stake
- there is more at stake than (just)
- (has) [upped, raised] the stakes
- drove a stake into the [attacker's, vampire's] heart
- use stakes to support [plants, the fence, their tomatoes]
- [witches, traitors, murderers] would be burned at the stake
- stake your [territory, land, claim]
- stake (out) a claim to
- stake a [lot of money, fortune] on
- (has) staked his name on
- [willing to, will] stake my reputation on
- stake out the [building, club, school, shop]
- stake out the suspect
- stake out all [night, day]
- stake down the [tent, tarp]
- stake out the boundary of the [garden, protest, construction]
- stake (up) the [tomatoes, vines, plants]
- stake the [dog, goat] in the [backyard, field]
- staked to [keep, prevent, support, guide]
'stake' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):