At stake

Definition

stake /steÇk / n ၁။ [C] ေျမတြင္ထိုးစိုက္ရန္ အဖ်ားတစ္ဖက္ ခြၽန္ ထားေသာ ၿခံတိုင္ကဲ့သို႔ေသာတိုင္။ ၂။ the stake [sing] (ေရွး)ျပစ္ဒဏ္ေပးသည့္အေနျဖင့္လူကိုခ်ည္၍မီး႐ိႈ႕ သတ္ရာတိုင္။ be burnt at the stake. ၃။ [C usu pl ] ေလာင္းေၾကး။ ေၾကး။ playing for high stakes ❍ The stakes are high—if we don't win this contract, we go out of business. ၄။ [C] အစု ပါဝင္သည့္ ရင္းႏီွးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံထည့္ေငြ။ have/buy a stake in a company ❍ He's taken a 10% stake in the business. ၅။ stakes (က) [pl] ျမင္းၿပိဳင္ပြဲ စသည္၌ ဆုေငြ။ (ခ) (usu Stakes ) [sing v ] ျမင္းရွင္မ်ားက စုေပါင္းမတည္ေသာ ဆုေငြ အတြက္ ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္သည့္ ျမင္းၿပိဳင္ပြဲ (အမည္ႏွင့္တြဲသံုးေလ့ရိွသည္)။ The Newmarket Stakes is always a popular race. v ၁။ တိုင္၊ ငုတ္တို႔ျဖင့္ (ပ်ဳိးပင္ကေလးမ်ား စသည္ကို) ေထာက္မ ေပးထားသည္။ stake newly planted trees. ၂။ ~ sth (on sth) ေလာင္းေၾကးထပ္သည္။ ေလာင္းသည္။ stake £25 on the favourite (eg in horse- racing) ❍ I'd stake my life on it (ie I am very confident about it). ❏ at stake [ IDM ] အ႐ံႈးအႏိုင္ေပၚႏိုင္သည္။ ခ်ိန္ခြင္ညႇာေပၚတြင္ ရိွသည္။ This decision puts their lives at stake. ❍ The future of this company is at stake. ❏ go to the stake over sth [ IDM ] ( often joc ) မရမက ဖက္တြယ္သည္။ I think I’m right on this issue but I wouldn’t go to the stake over it. ❏ stake (out) a/one's claim (to sb/sth) [ IDM ] မိမိဆိုင္ရာ ပိုင္ရာျဖစ္သည္၊ မိမိအရာဌာနျဖစ္သည္ဟု အတိအလင္းဆိုသည္။ In his speech the minister clearly staked a/his claim to the leadership of the party. ❏ stake sth out [ PHRV ] ၁။ (esp formerly) ငုတ္႐ိုက္၍ ပိုင္နက္ကန္႔သည္။ ၂။ အပိုင္စားယူသည္။ He's staked out this corner of the sitting-room as his own. ၃။ အလစ္ မေပးဘဲ ေခ်ာင္းေျမာင္းေထာက္လွမ္းသည္။ ၾကည့္ကင္းခ်သည္။ Detectives have beenstaking out the house for two days now. ❏ stake-out n ရဲၾကည့္ကင္း။

Examples

1. [stake in] : They took a 40% stake in the company last year.
2. [a majority/minority stake] : Coca-Cola has a majority stake in the company.
3. [have a stake in (doing) something] : He has a huge stake in making the peace process work.
4. He liked gambling
5. but only for small stakes.
6. [high stakes] : With such high stakes
7. the atmosphere was tense.
8. [raise the stakes] : The Americans have raised the stakes in a bitter fight over imports.
9. [be burnt at the stake] : Joan of Arc was burnt at the stake in 1431.
10. The Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot
11. Who are the main contenders in the party leadership stakes?
12. [in the popularity/fitness/beauty etc stakes] : They’re running neck and neck in the popularity stakes.