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AH020387 Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Stake

What does stakes mean in 'the stakes are higher'?
  

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AH020387 What does stakes mean in 'the stakes are higher'? The amount (money, reputation, anything of value) that is at risk of loss.

  • AH020387 What does stakes mean in 'the stakes are higher'?
  • The amount (money, reputation, anything of value) that is at risk of loss.
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AH020387What does stakes mean in 'the stakes are higher'?
The amount (money, reputation, anything of value) that is at risk of loss.
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It means what's at risk or at play.

In a card game being played for money or something else of value, it would literally mean whatever was being played for was of a higher value than at some other point in the game.

It is also used metaphorically to mean things other than literal stakes in a game, such as in the following sentence:

For BP, the stakes grew higher each da

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