| 词汇 | stake your claim to |
| 释义 | (redirected from stake your claim to)stake (one's) claimTo assert one's ownership of or right to something. John rushed to New York to stake his claim to his father's inheritance money. stake a claimTo assert one's ownership of or right to something. My great-grandfather staked a claim to this land. You can't have this cookie because someone else already staked a claim to it. stake a claim to someone or somethingFig. to state or record one's claim on someone or something. (Alludes to marking off an area by pounding in wooden stakes.) she staked a claim to Jeff and told all her rivals to stay away. The prospector staked a claim to the gold-rich area. stake (out) a/your ˈclaim to somebody/somethingsay that you have a special interest in somebody/something, or have a right to own something, especially to warn other people not to take it: Both countries have staked out a claim to the land.If you staked out your claim to some land, you put stakes (= wooden posts) in the ground to mark the limits of land that you claimed was yours. |
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