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Meanings of Stake-money:

noun

An amount of money that you invest in something

Usage examples:

With some high-risk investments, you may lose some of your original stake money.

Meanings of Stakeholder:

noun

(in gambling) an independent party with whom each of those who make a wager deposits the money or counters wagered.

Usage examples:

The statute permits a gambling ‘loser’ or other permitted plaintiff to recover from ‘a winner, depo…

Meanings of Stakeout:

noun

A period of secret surveillance of a building or an area by police in order to observe someone's activities.

Usage examples:

They were looking for a vantage point for a stake-out

Meanings of Stakeouts:

noun

A period of secret surveillance of a building or an area by police in order to observe someone's activities.

Usage examples:

They were looking for a vantage point for a stake-out

Meanings of Stakes:

noun

A strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end, driven into the ground to support a plant, form part of a fence, mark a boundary, etc.

Usage examples:

A row of more than 15 bricks, pieces of concrete, metal poles, wooden stakes and a traffic cone wer…

verb

A territorial division of the mormon church under the jurisdiction of a president.

phrase

In an activity or competition, the stakes are the reward for the person who wins or succeeds in it

Usage examples:

The team is playing for enormous stakes - the chance to play in the final., this tv debate could de…

Meanings of Stakhanovite:

noun

A worker in the former soviet union who was exceptionally hard-working and productive.

Usage examples:

The stakhanovites succeeded in increasing the quantity of goods produced

Meanings of Staking:

verb

Support (a plant) with a stake or stakes.

Usage examples:

The gladioli were staked in gaudy ranks

noun

A strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end, driven into the ground to support a plant, form part of a fence, mark a boundary, etc.

Usage examples:

A row of more than 15 bricks, pieces of concrete, metal poles, wooden stakes and a traffic cone wer…

Meanings of Stalactite:

noun

A tapering structure hanging like an icicle from the roof of a cave, formed of calcium salts deposited by dripping water.

Usage examples:

Originally formed by a subterranean stream, then flooded by the sea, it is a rare opportunity to di…

Meanings of Stalactites:

noun

A tapering structure hanging like an icicle from the roof of a cave, formed of calcium salts deposited by dripping water.

Usage examples:

Originally formed by a subterranean stream, then flooded by the sea, it is a rare opportunity to di…

Meanings of Stalagmite:

noun

A mound or tapering column rising from the floor of a cave, formed of calcium salts deposited by dripping water and often uniting with a stalactite.

Usage examples:

Icicles, stalactites, stalagmites, lava tubes, and some crystals may be considered cylindrical, but…

Meanings of Stalagmites:

noun

A mound or tapering column rising from the floor of a cave, formed of calcium salts deposited by dripping water and often uniting with a stalactite.

Usage examples:

Icicles, stalactites, stalagmites, lava tubes, and some crystals may be considered cylindrical, but…

Meanings of Stalags:

noun

(in the second world war) a german prison camp, especially for non-commissioned officers and privates.

Usage examples:

Having been shot down over berlin, roy was captured by the nazis and sent to the stalag 6 prisoner …

Meanings of Stale:

adjective

(of food) no longer fresh and pleasant to eat; hard, musty, or dry.

Usage examples:

Stale bread

verb

Make or become stale.

Usage examples:

She would cut up yesterday's leftover bread, staling now

Meanings of Stalemated:

adjective

Having reached a situation in which further action or progress by opposing or competing parties seems impossible.

Usage examples:

The currently stalemated peace talks

verb

Bring to or cause to reach stalemate.

Usage examples:

The group played a key role in stalemating the negotiations

Meanings of Stalemates:

noun

A situation in which further action or progress by opposing or competing parties seems impossible.

Usage examples:

The war had again reached stalemate

verb

Bring to or cause to reach stalemate.

Usage examples:

The group played a key role in stalemating the negotiations

Meanings of Stalemating:

verb

Bring to or cause to reach stalemate.

Usage examples:

The group played a key role in stalemating the negotiations

noun

A situation in which further action or progress by opposing or competing parties seems impossible.

Usage examples:

The war had again reached stalemate

Meanings of Staler:

adjective

(of food) no longer fresh and pleasant to eat; hard, musty, or dry.

Usage examples:

Stale bread

verb

Make or become stale.

Usage examples:

She would cut up yesterday's leftover bread, staling now

Meanings of Stales:

verb

Make or become stale.

Usage examples:

She would cut up yesterday's leftover bread, staling now

adjective

(of food) no longer fresh and pleasant to eat; hard, musty, or dry.

Usage examples:

Stale bread

Meanings of Stalest:

adjective

(of food) no longer fresh and pleasant to eat; hard, musty, or dry.

Usage examples:

Stale bread

verb

Make or become stale.

Usage examples:

She would cut up yesterday's leftover bread, staling now

Meanings of Staling:

verb

Make or become stale.

Usage examples:

She would cut up yesterday's leftover bread, staling now

adjective

(of food) no longer fresh and pleasant to eat; hard, musty, or dry.

Usage examples:

Stale bread

Meanings of Stalinist:

noun

A supporter of the soviet statesman stalin or his ideology and policies.

Usage examples:

The role of the stalinists during the spanish civil war

adjective

Relating to the soviet statesman stalin or his ideology and policies.

Usage examples:

The stalinist regime

Meanings of Stalk:

noun

The main stem of a herbaceous plant.

Usage examples:

He chewed a stalk of grass

verb

Pursue or approach stealthily.

Usage examples:

A cat stalking a bird

Meanings of Stalker:

noun

A person who harasses or persecutes someone with unwanted and obsessive attention.

Usage examples:

Tracy claimed she was the victim of a stalker

Meanings of Stalking horse:

noun

A person or thing that is used to conceal someone's real intentions.

Usage examples:

You have used me simply as a stalking horse for some of your more outrageous views

Meanings of Stall:

noun

A stand, booth, or compartment for the sale of goods in a market or large covered area.

Usage examples:

Fruit and vegetable stalls

verb

(of a motor vehicle or its engine) stop running, typically because of an overload on the engine.

Usage examples:

Her car stalled at the crossroads