at stake

prep_phrase

Etymology

See stake.

Definitions

  1. At issue, at risk.

    • What is at stake in these next 20 minutes is the championship.
    • Doesn't he realize that all of our lives are at stake here too?
    • I see my reputation is at stake My fame is shrewdly gored.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for at stake. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA