ANTE
- money advanced for a share in a business venture
- individual's share of group expenses
- to put in (one's initial stake)
- fixed stake put into the pot by each player before the deal
- to pay (one's share) (usually fol. by up)
- a poker stake usually put up before the deal to build the pot the dealer called for a dollar ante
- st price these improvements would raise the ante
- level (as of achievement or intensity) regarded especially as a goal or standard the film ups the ante on special effects
- to put a fixed stake into the pot before the cards are dealt in poker [v ANTED, ANTEED, ANTEING, ANTES]
- to stake at poker [v ANTEED or ANTED, ANTEING, ANTES]
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