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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Does "claimed a stake" mean "branded with a hot iron"?
Context:
In the bureaucratic maze of communist China, a document was hardly ever 'unique', in the sense that copies were made and circulated to many institutions who might have claimed a stake in the case at hand.
In the bureaucratic maze of communist China, a document was hardly ever 'unique', in the sense that copies were made and circulated to many institutions who might have claimed a stake in the case at hand.
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Um, no, not sure how you got to there. To "claim a stake" means to claim that you own a part of something, or that you have a legitimate reason to be involved in something, or similar.
- Um, no, not sure how you got to there.
- To "claim a stake" means to claim that you own a part of something, or that you have a legitimate reason to be involved in something, or similar.
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Um, no, not sure how you got to there. To "claim a stake" means to claim that you own a part of something, or that you have a legitimate reason to be involved in something, or similar.
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