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Also, stake out a claim . Indicate something as one's own, as in I'm staking a claim to the drumstick , or She staked out a claim for herself in the insurance business . This term, dating from the mid-1800s, originally meant “register a claim to land by marking it with stakes.” It was being used figuratively by the late 1800s.Advertisement
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