stake

- a controlling / majority / minority stake 企業支配権／過半数の株／少数株

- Joan of Arc was burned at the stake. 〔ジャンヌ・ダルク〕

- Name your stakes.

- It was a last-ditch effort upon which the existence were staked.

- It's been a tense debate because the stakes are so high. (President Obama)

- And given the stakes involved, I owed the American people and our troops no less. (President Obama)

- The President staked out his position on the issue. (= stated his position on the issue very clearly) (Oxford)

- Detectives had been staking out the house for several weeks. (watching the house secretly, very possibly for signs of illegal activity) (Oxford)

- Innocent lives are at stakes.
- …because it was their money at stake.
- And that is part of what's at stake in this election.