high-stakes

adjective

Involving large costs or rewards.

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Meanings

adjectivehigh-stakes (not comparable)
  1. idiomaticnot comparableInvolving large costs or rewards.

    But it was in the early 2000s that the high-stakes TV pop contest really arrived, along with promises that it would propel a few lucky auditionees to obscene levels of success and fame.

    2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC

Translations

Spanish alto impacto
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Cite this entry
APA

high-stakes. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/high-stakes

MLA

“high-stakes.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/high-stakes. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “high-stakes,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/high-stakes.

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