stake
Noun
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referred to in: jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authorityis a type of: part, percentage, portion, share - assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or groupsubtypes:
- grubstake - funds advanced to a prospector or to someone starting a business in return for a share of the profits
- controlling interest - ownership of more than 50% of a corporation's voting shares
- insurable interest - an interest in a person or thing that will support the issuance of an insurance policy; an interest in the survival of the insured or in the preservation of the thing that is insured
- vested interest - (law) an interest in which there is a fixed right to present or future enjoyment and that can be conveyed to another
- security interest - any interest in a property that secures the payment of an obligation
- terminable interest - an interest in property that terminates under specific conditions
- undivided interest, undivided right - the interest in property owned by tenants whereby each tenant has an equal right to enjoy the entire property
- fee - an interest in land capable of being inherited
- equity - the ownership interest of shareholders in a corporation
- reversion - (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee)
- right - (frequently plural) the interest possessed by law or custom in some intangible thing
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is a type of: visual signal - a signal that involves visual communicationsubtypes:
- starting post - a post marking the starting point of a race (especially a horse race)
- winning post - the post at the end of a racecourse
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is a type of: instrument of execution - an instrument designed and used to take the life of a condemned person
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is a type of: gamble - money that is risked for possible monetary gainsubtypes:is a part of: pool - any communal combination of funds
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is a type of: post - an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position
Verb
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is a type of: mark - make or leave a mark onsame as: post
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entail: pierce - make a hole intois a type of: kill - cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowinglysame as: impale
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