All stake synonyms
stake
S s verb stake
- lend-lease β the matΓ©riel and services supplied by the U.S. to its allies during World War II under an act of Congress (Lend-Lease Act) passed in 1941: such aid was to be repaid in kind after the war.
- lean on β to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window.
- guarantee β a promise or assurance, especially one in writing, that something is of specified quality, content, benefit, etc., or that it will perform satisfactorily for a given length of time: a money-back guarantee.
- give odds β to offer a bet with favourable odds
- come around β If someone comes around or comes round to your house, they call there to see you.
- mortgaged β a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
- initialled β of, relating to, or occurring at the beginning; first: the initial step in a process.
- lend β to grant the use of (something) on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.
- lay on the line β a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- guarantied β a warrant, pledge, or formal assurance given as security that another's debt or obligation will be fulfilled.
- buy into β If you buy into a company or an organization, you buy part of it, often in order to gain some control of it.
- handed β of, belonging to, using, or used by the hand.
- gamed β an amusement or pastime: children's games.
- fit out β adapted or suited; appropriate: This water isn't fit for drinking. A long-necked giraffe is fit for browsing treetops.
- dig up β to break up, turn over, or remove earth, sand, etc., as with a shovel, spade, bulldozer, or claw; make an excavation.
- wager β something risked or staked on an uncertain event; bet: to place a wager on a soccer match.
- dare β If you do not dare to do something, you do not have enough courage to do it, or you do not want to do it because you fear the consequences. If you dare to do something, you do something which requires a lot of courage.
- mortgaging β a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
- adventuring β the act of doing adventurous things or having adventures
- gear up β Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- guarantying β a warrant, pledge, or formal assurance given as security that another's debt or obligation will be fulfilled.
- allying β to unite formally, as by treaty, league, marriage, or the like (usually followed by with or to): Russia allied itself to France.
- initials β of, relating to, or occurring at the beginning; first: the initial step in a process.
- grant β to bestow or confer, especially by a formal act: to grant a charter.
- go for broke β a simple past tense of break.
noun stake
- endowment β The action of endowing something or someone.
- flagstaff β flagpole.
- means β to have in mind as one's purpose or intention; intend: I meant to compliment you on your work. Synonyms: contemplate.
- leg β either of the two lower limbs of a biped, as a human being, or any of the paired limbs of an animal, arthropod, etc., that support and move the body.
- drop-off β a vertical or very steep descent: The trail has a drop-off of several hundred feet.
- fulcra β the support, or point of rest, on which a lever turns in moving a body.
- exchequer β A royal or national treasury.
- crosspiece β a transverse beam, joist, etc
- gleanings β the act of a person who gleans.
- adjustment β An adjustment is a small change that is made to something such as a machine or a way of doing something.
- advance β To advance means to move forward, often in order to attack someone.
- brad β a small tapered nail having a small head that is either symmetrical or formed on one side only
- cache β A cache is a quantity of things such as weapons that have been hidden.
- big idea β any plan or proposal that is grandiose, impractical, and usually unsolicited: You're always coming around here with your big ideas.
- kitty β a kitten.
- cd β CDs are small plastic discs on which sound, especially music, is recorded. CDs can also be used to store information which can be read by a computer. CD is an abbreviation for 'compact disc'.
- hardwood β the hard, compact wood or timber of various trees, as the oak, cherry, maple, or mahogany.
- fifty-fifty β equally good and bad, likely and unlikely, favorable and unfavorable, etc.: a fifty-fifty chance of winning.
- fulcrum β the support, or point of rest, on which a lever turns in moving a body.
- deposit β A deposit is a sum of money which is part of the full price of something, and which you pay when you agree to buy it.
- weald β The, a region in SE England, in Kent, Surrey, and Essex counties: once a forest area; now an agricultural region.
- cds β credit default swap
- grubstake β provisions, gear, etc., furnished to a prospector on condition of participating in the profits of any discoveries.