The phrase "a stake of something" is not correct in standard English; the correct expression is "a stake in something." You can use it when referring to having an interest or investment in a particular situation, project, or business.
Example: "She has a significant stake in the company's success, as she invested a large sum of money."
Alternatives: "an interest in something" or "a share in something."
Gambling, the betting or staking of something of value, with consciousness of risk and hope of gain, on the outcome of a game, a contest, or an uncertain event whose result may be determined by chance or accident or have an unexpected result by reason of the bettor's miscalculation.
"If you've got a stake in something, you're more likely to take notice of it and make sure it operates as efficiently as it can".
Instead, open-ended solutions create a stake in ownership, something of a first for the series outside of emotional attachment to characters.
This gives people a stake in society, something they can lose.
It may have arrived a little ahead of time, dressed for now in the borrowed weeds of the ICC Champions Trophy, but when England and Australia take the field at Edgbaston on Saturday morning it will be hard to avoid a sense of something rather broader at stake than the chance to sneak a little early Group A momentum.
Of course, SoftBank could be the one to do the acquisition of Yahoo as well, and then trade some of their Alibaba stake for something of similar value.
"Anything that gives people a stake in the community and something to be proud of has got to be encouraged".
There are several others in the works, including one by New Yorker contributor Daniel Mendelsohn, about reading The Odyssey with his ailing father, while I recently published a book on the genesis of The Great Gatsby, so I have something of a stake in this game.
While she has said that her initial stake of a thousand dollars was something that she felt her family could afford, she would have had to be risking far, far in excess of that in order to achieve her initial, dazzling return of over five hundred per cent in the first day's trading.
