stake

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A share or financial interest in a business or situation.

   She owns a 20 percent stake in the company.

2. 2
   noun

   A pointed wooden or metal post driven into the ground as a marker or support.

   They marked the corners of the field with wooden stakes.

3. 3
   verb

   To risk money or something important on the result of something.

   He staked his whole savings on the new business.

4. 4
   verb

   To support or fasten a plant to a stake.

   We staked the young tomato plants.

From Middle English stake, from Old English staca (“pin, tack, stake”), from Proto-West Germanic *stakō, from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *stog-, *steg- (“stake”). Cognate with Scots stak, staik, Saterland Frisian Stak, West Frisian staak, Dutch staak, Low German Stake, Norwegian stake, Spanish estaca.

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