stake

/steɪk/ n [C] (RISK)

Definition

› the amount of money that you risk on the result of a game or competition: Almost everyone has a stake in the global economy these days.

(Definition of stake n (RISK) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

real or true

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