staking
verb
Meaning
- To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.
- To pierce or wound with a stake.
- To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
- To provide another with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture.
- An act of stabbing with a stake.
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