ante
noun
a fixed but arbitrary stake put into the pot by each player before the deal.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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This week investors were anteing $5,249,200 for the 198,083 K. & T. shares sold by the Kearneys.
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