table stake
Americannoun
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a stake that a player places on the table at the beginning of a game that may not be changed once the deal begins.
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table stakes, the limiting of a bet to the amount remaining in a player's table stake during a game.
Example Sentences
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"The world's major tech companies are realizing that having a really popular mobile messenger has simply become table stake for competing in this era of computing," said Ted Livingston, CEO of Kik Messenger, a WhatsApp rival.
From Reuters
Relevance is a table stake across the entire lifecycle of a seller-buyer relationship, not just when you’re making the sale or answering a customer service question.
From Forbes
He had persuaded Sandy Mackintavers to gamble that sum, to play it as a table stake.
From Project Gutenberg
Nothin' common, though; I sees him one night when he sets ca'mly into some four-handed poker, five thousand dollars table stake, an' he's sanguine an' hopeful about landin' on his feet as a Cimmaron sheep.
From Project Gutenberg
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