stake a claim
Definition
› If you stake a claim to something, you say or show that you have a right to it and that it should belong to you: He marked the spot on his map where he had seen the gold and returned later that month to stake his claim.Announcing, informing and statingHaving and owning - general words
(Definition of stake a claim from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Keeping and storing things
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- Removing and getting rid of things
- Stop having or doing something
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Synonyms and related words:
- -owned suffix
- attach to sb/sth phrasal verb
- be endowed with sth idiom
- bearer noun
- belong to sb phrasal verb
- boast verb (HAVE)
- call verb (CONSIDER)
- glint verb
- hold verb (CONTROL)
- interest noun (LEGAL RIGHT)
- make sth (all) your own idiom
- mistress noun (WOMAN IN CONTROL)
- not/never want for anything idiom
- own determiner, pronoun
- owner noun
- proprietress noun
- reside in sth/sb phrasal verb
- revert to sb phrasal verb
- stake somewhere/sth out phrasal verb
- title noun (LEGAL RIGHT)
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