WORD: ANTE
MEANING:
1. Games The stake that each poker player must put into the pool before receiving a hand or before receiving new cards.
2. A price to be paid, especially as one's share; cost: "Whether they could actually turn back Soviet policy depended on many factors that Moscow might yet choose to test by upping the ante" (Foreign Affairs). "Citizen Kane was the movie that raised the artistic ante among American filmmakers" (J. Hoberman).
3. chance, stake
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. the world`s largest mobile carrier - is set to up the ante in the smartphone war with rival Samsung
PRONOUNCE:
an·te - ऐन्टी
LINK: ANTE
MEANING:
1. Games The stake that each poker player must put into the pool before receiving a hand or before receiving new cards.
2. A price to be paid, especially as one's share; cost: "Whether they could actually turn back Soviet policy depended on many factors that Moscow might yet choose to test by upping the ante" (Foreign Affairs). "Citizen Kane was the movie that raised the artistic ante among American filmmakers" (J. Hoberman).
3. chance, stake
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. the world`s largest mobile carrier - is set to up the ante in the smartphone war with rival Samsung
PRONOUNCE:
an·te - ऐन्टी
LINK: ANTE
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