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{{wiktionary|stake}}
'''Stake''' may refer to:
* In business, a stake is a share of ownership of a company.<ref>[http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/stake_2?view=uk Ask Oxford]</ref>
* [[Stake: Fortune Fighters]], the 2003 Xbox game
* [[Stake (Latter Day Saints)]], an administrative unit of [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] and other Latter Day Saint denominations
* [[Stake (lawn game)]] is a popular lawn game played by 2 or more persons by throwing a metal spike in to the ground.
* [[Sudis (stake)]], field fortification carried by Roman legionaries
* In [[folklore]] and [[mythology]], a wooden stake, like silver bullets, have special powers to kill monsters via impalement. See [[vampire]], [[werewolf]]
* [[Execution by burning]], to ancient Christians, a stake was a pole to which people accused of heresy or witchcraft were tied and "burned at the stake"
* In [[gambling]], a stake is the quantity of money or other goods that is risked on the outcome of some specific event
** As a result, many [[horse race]]s' names end in the word "Stakes", causing metaphoric usages such as "an animal winning the reproduction stakes".
* A ''torture stake'', a method of execution similar to [[crucifixion]] using a single pole or stake in lieu of a cross, killing the victim by [[asphyxiation]]. See [[impalement]].
* A stake is a long, pointed object thrust into the ground. Stakes have many applications, such as demarcating a small plot of land, anchoring guy ropes for a tent or other portable structure, or slowly releasing fertilizer to aid the growth of plants, and in mythology slaying a [[vampire]]
* A stake is a polished iron shape, very firmly mounted, used by silversmiths in the manner of a blacksmith's [[anvil]]
* "[http://www.stakes.fi/EN/index.htm Stakes]" is the established acronym for the official [[research]] bureau of welfare and health in [[Finland]].
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