I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a minority stake (= a number of shares in a company, equalling less than half the total number )
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IBM has bought a minority stake in the computer company.
be burned at the stake (= burned in a fire as a punishment )
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In those days witches were burned at the stake.
sb's/sth's honour is at stake (= someone may lose their honour )
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French people believed that the country's honour was at stake over the incident.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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We are playing for big stakes here.
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In fact, corn farmers probably have as big a stake in sugar quotas as do sugar growers!
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The stock market has no inkling a big stake is being amassed, so the target's share price need not rise.
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They, after all, are the ones with the biggest stake in the outcome.
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At the least, they understand something big is at stake .
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For towns of medium size a big stake in the woollen textile industry was the surest foundation of prosperity.
financial
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There are really two questions: who can stay in the home and how is the financial stake to be divided?
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Quackenbush is confident the timetable can be met, especially since the financial stakes are so high.
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One other body deserves mention, though it is very small fry in the financial stakes .
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It is argued that there might be one financial cost at stake in this idea.
high
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You thought you'd play - for higher stakes than those he was offering.
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Of course much depends on how the current high stakes budget negotiations play out.
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He found Zacco lightly intoxicated, and playing dice for high stakes among a circle of friends.
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I have relatively high stakes in conformity - I happen to have done fairly well out of it.
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It's a high-stakes game, and few enterprises can afford to compete.
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Especially when the players themselves happily accept the high stakes for which they play, gambling with their bodies.
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But commander-in-chief Douglas MacArthur wanted to play for higher stakes .
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And sport is played for higher-sometimes much higher-stakes, whether these be economic, political or personal.
large
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Analysts also expect the company to shed its large stake in merchant bank Singer &038; Friedlander.
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I have tried to play for a large stake , and if I succeed all will be well.
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Meanwhile, the Conservative Government has helped ordinary people to gain a larger stake in the nation's wealth.
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It follows, then, that families have the largest stake in the education process.
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Identify the four or five groups that you think would have the largest stake in decisions in this policy area. 2.
major
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This will give Anglia a major stake in a top Hollywood television production company.
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The process of centralization has involved governments in taking a major stake in investments which were previously foreign-owned.
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They have taken a major stake in Crane Holdings.
significant
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News that an investor has bought a significant stake in any company is likely to lift that company's share price.
small
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His modest bit of holiday money had miraculously multiplied and all from a single, small stake !
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With a very small stake , vast losses and gains can be made.
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Banks own small stakes of their own and can rally support against a bidder.
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In return it will take a small stake in their start-ups.
wooden
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It's thought the attackers used either a knife or a wooden stake .
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In the town of Pisco, 125 miles south of the capital Lima, sales of crucifixes and wooden stakes are booming.
■ NOUN
equity
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This has resulted in several of the unlisted equity stakes being valued at a big discount to the quoted investments.
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Lockheed Martin will hold a 20 percent equity stake in Loral Space.
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Terms of the acquisition of the product line and equity stake were not revealed.
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Gengold operates a total of 11 mines under management contracts and holds equity stakes in each.
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About 65 percent of Gold Fields' earnings are from dividends paid by gold mines in which it has equity stakes .
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Rockefeller would retain its 50 percent equity stake in Embarcadero Center.
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As part of labor concession agreements with other airlines, the Airline Pilots Association has sought an equity stake in USAir.
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The 49-percent equity stake commands 71 percent of voting rights.
minority
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It is unlikely, however, that any Western company will get more than a minority stake in Pilsner Urquell.
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Jaguar plunged 46p to 685p as General Motors confirmed it is in talks that could result in it taking a minority stake .
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The disposal of a minority stake would raise about £17 million.
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A strategic alliance may take the form of an outright acquisition, minority stake , joint venture or brand franchise.
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Assuming that shares are purchased, whether to acquire full control, majority holding or a minority stake ?
■ VERB
acquire
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It acquired its stake in the early 1980s, hoping eventually to acquire the tobacco group.
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Disney reportedly has been in talks to acquire a one-third stake in Starwave Corp. for as much as $ 100 million.
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Millions of voters have acquired a stake in the wider ownership of shares and homes and a voice in union affairs.
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Hongkong Land acquired a 14.9% stake in Trafalgar House and then attempted, but failed, to push its holding to 29.9%.
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Mediobanca is being forced to acquire the 10 percent stake after secretly buying that much in October.
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Employees should be given every opportunity to acquire a stake in the business for which they work.
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Buyers acquire a 50 percent stake in exchange for investing a certain amount of money in the company.
burn
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Generation One you burn at the stake .
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He was then burnt at the stake .
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Refusing to recant his doctrines as heretical, he was condemned to be burnt at the stake at Konstanz.
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Governor Dulcitius had her sisters burnt at the stake .
burned
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They were quickly convicted and sentenced to be burned at the stake .
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He was pursued, as described in the rhyme, until caught at Grassgill End where he was burned at the stake .
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In those days they would have burned geneticists at the stake .
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I might well have got myself burned upon a stake , although in those days that wasn't all that difficult.
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This was her husband and he was being burned at the stake .
buy
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Although the under-18s can not trade shares themselves, adults can buy stakes in collective investment funds on their behalf.
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And it is taking the unusual step of buying ownership stakes in some projects.
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Members do not simply join it, they buy a stake in it.
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But they will be allowed to buy stakes of up to 15 percent and after five years the barriers will come down.
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Union des Assurances de Paris is tipped to buy the 21 p.c. stake in Skandia.
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Mr Perelman previously attempted to buy a stake in Salomon Brothers, which rejected his approach.
control
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Carso owns controlling stakes in 12 companies, including outfits in the mining, auto parts, cigarette and retail industries.
drive
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If one wins while wrestling with the devil, one must drive a stake into his heart.
hold
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Telefonica holds a 60% stake in the company, local partners the rest.
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Gengold operates a total of 11 mines under management contracts and holds equity stakes in each.
increase
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A part disposal is occurring here - the effect is to increase the stake of the minority shareholders from 20% to 45%.
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Currently, Packer is prevented from increasing his stake above the current 17 percent by cross-media ownership rules.
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The consortium paid US$50,000,000 for a 30 percent stake in Ikarus, with an option to increase the stake to 48 percent.
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Continental is expected to try and increase its stake - or bid.
own
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Greene King failed in its attempt to take over Morland; it now owns a 29.32% stake in the Thames Valley brewer.
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Discount Investment, which rose 2. 25 percent, owns a 26 percent stake in Iscar.
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Carso owns controlling stakes in 12 companies, including outfits in the mining, auto parts, cigarette and retail industries.
play
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You thought you'd play - for higher stakes than those he was offering.
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I have tried to play for a large stake , and if I succeed all will be well.
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He found Zacco lightly intoxicated, and playing dice for high stakes among a circle of friends.
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We are playing for big stakes here.
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But commander-in-chief Douglas MacArthur wanted to play for higher stakes .
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A judge told William Sim and David Todd that they had been playing for high stakes and had to pay the penalty.
pull
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Moreover, when a business pulls up stakes or downsizes, an entire program can wither overnight.
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Sometimes, staying put is a greater act of courage than pulling up stakes and starting anew.
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So, he pulled up stakes and moved to Allen County to oversee a farm.
raise
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One whiff - and they raise the stakes by digging deeper into their pockets.
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More important, it raised the stakes .
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Superpower involvement has raised the stakes rather than lowered them.
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He raised the stakes when he could not win.
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In such circumstances, why raise the stakes by pursuing independence?
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Equally alarming is Costner's campaign to pressure state legislators to raise the maximum betting stake .
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Literary rivalry raised the stakes in the unfolding family romance.
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The erosion of investment grade credits, though, would raise the stakes for banks.
sell
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Mr Holmes a Court is thought to have taken advantage of the share's rapid progress, selling his 2 percent stake .
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The elder Clarks and the Wrights had sold off their stakes .
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Hanson, the industrial holding company, announced it had sold almost half its stake in packaging-to-adhesives group Wassall.
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He has specifically mentioned selling a stake in the road.
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SmithKline might sell its 84% stake in Beckman, a scientific-instrument business, and Allergan, an eye-care subsidiary.
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Hanson was fended off, and sold his stake a year later, but the episode had unleashed shock waves.
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If he does not do so, Edwards will be able to sell his stake to the highest bidder.
take
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It may take a stake in the venture.
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Jaguar plunged 46p to 685p as General Motors confirmed it is in talks that could result in it taking a minority stake .
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Cook has already promised to take a 12.5 percent stake in Owners via a tender offer, provided the Airtours bid failed.
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Radio Investments has taken its stake in Kent-based radio station Invicta Sound to 10.47 percent through the purchase of another 1.39 percent.
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The process of centralization has involved governments in taking a major stake in investments which were previously foreign-owned.
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Three years ago Rover linked up with Honda, which took a 20 percent stake in the company.
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Granada Media agreed to take a 5 % stake in Arsenal football club, valuing the side at $ 570m.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
majority stake/shareholding etc
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And if the deceased director owned a majority shareholding, the surviving directors could suddenly find themselves with a new boss.
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Demand from investors will determine how many new shares are issued, although Pittencrieff said yesterday it will retain a majority stake.
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Virgin was interested in the Ames group and took a majority shareholding.
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Vodafone, however, has a reputation of building up majority stakes in its company holdings.
put/bet/stake your shirt on sth
stake your claim (for sth)
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Before we staked our claim to our own windward isle, there was something I wanted to see first.
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Families were already staking their claims on the beach; children were digging eagerly as terriers, spraying sand all around them.
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Honor had been satisfied; each group had staked its claim to its own territory.
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If you want him, stake your claim .
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Other fish may have already staked their claim to other hiding places in your aquarium.
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Shastri died in 1966, and Indira Gandhi staked her claim .
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Those undertaking the drainage were quick to stake their claim to the best bits of land.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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China has a major stake in the project.
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She went into business by acquiring a stake in a copper mine in Australia.
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The American investor boosted his stake in the company to 15%.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As part of labor concession agreements with other airlines, the Airline Pilots Association has sought an equity stake in USAir.
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Its main partner is Scandinavian Broadcasting Systems, a media firm in which Disney has a 23 percent stake .
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The move puts off a decision on the question for at least several months, but it may well raise the stakes.
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The teacher himself, of course, has his job, his reputation and possibly his marriage at stake .
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There was simply too much at stake to leave things to chance.
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This is partly because of the importance of the interests at stake in immigration decisions: personal safety and liberty.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
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They'd staked out Culley's flat for half a day and most of the night.
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In the latter, parishioners staked out positions and courted support as though an election loomed.
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We had staked out the war memorial where the secret meeting was destined to occur.
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To Quebec, where the International Hockey League already has staked out an expansion franchise but could change its minds.
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My men will have had the place staked out since dawn.
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Patrol officers staked out the vehicle.
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They had already out guessed me, by staking out my favourite haunt.
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We staked out a spot on the beach and sat on a blanket eating buttered spaghetti and fried bananas.
■ NOUN
claim
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Others will have already staked a claim with tripods and telescopes.
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In the last six months, two fledgling dirt-shirt companies have staked claims to this earthy enterprise.
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If you want him, stake your claim .
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Honor had been satisfied; each group had staked its claim to its own territory.
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Those undertaking the drainage were quick to stake their claim to the best bits of land.
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Before we staked our claim to our own windward isle, there was something I wanted to see first.
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Shastri died in 1966, and Indira Gandhi staked her claim .
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He may have staked a claim for a regular place, particularly if Steven Gerrard is not fit.
company
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Fan said it wants to move away from being strictly a holding company , with minority stakes in large listed companies.
future
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But most staked their future on making a new commitment swiftly.
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Why else would we be staking our future on it?
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But they are also staking their future on economic growth.
ground
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All the meetings seemed to end up the same lately with everyone bickering and staking out political ground .
life
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She'd stake her life - and her love for him - on that.
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Why had he not staked everything on life for his son, gambled all for that life?
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An incredible horror-barely mitigated by the gallantry award and hero's status he had earned by staking his own life .
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He's a good head lad, Tremayne trusts him, but I wouldn't stake my life on his loyalty.
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He was prepared to stake his own life on it.
percent
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It will comprise telecommunications assets owned by Carso, including its 8. 4 percent stake in the telephone giant.
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Cablevision will pay $ 500 million in cash for an additional 38. 5 percent stake in Madison Square Garden.
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Cablevision can buy the remaining 11. 5 percent stake over the next three years.
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In the bankruptcy filing, Capital Cities is named as the lead investor, with a 20. 4 percent stake .
position
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He is a very mundane politician reading the focus group results and staking out a position he thinks will sell.
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In the latter, parishioners staked out positions and courted support as though an election loomed.
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He has staked out a unique position in the wars of digital supremacy, and he may well be right.
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In Iowa, where the antiabortion movement dominates Republican politics, Buchanan moved to stake out the strongest position on the subject.
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Compromise, the essence of politics, becomes more difficult after one has staked out a position in public.
reputation
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Mendeleev's contribution was to stake his reputation on it, and to see its power.
territory
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Long ago Maude and lack had staked out their territories .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I spent the afternoon staking up our tomato plants.
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One time he even staked his house on a roll of the dice.
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Part of the park was staked off to allow the grass to grow back.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All the meetings seemed to end up the same lately with everyone bickering and staking out political ground.
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He promised Draper and Berry that he would not stake the existence of Virgin on the airline.
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It was in her desperate kisses, the way she clutched at him, her hands roving possessively, staking out claims.
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Long ago Maude and lack had staked out their territories.
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Others will have already staked a claim with tripods and telescopes.
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Shastri died in 1966, and Indira Gandhi staked her claim.
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She'd stake her life - and her love for him - on that.