ante

an·te1 /ˈænti/ noun

1 up/raise the ante FORCE somebody TO DO somethingto increase your demands or try to get more things from a situation, even though this involves more risks 提高要求，增加筹码

They’ve upped the ante by making a $120 million bid to buy the company.

他们增加筹码，出价1.2亿美元收购该公司。

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up/raise the ante• The owners are constantly carping about runaway salaries, then fall over themselves to jump the gun and up the ante.• What they are now doing is compromising, in this half-baked manner, by raising the ante to 70.• Logan said, referring to the Colorado Avalanche star whose $ 21-million contract upped the ante for Kariya.• Creating an economic asset in the form of a parental dividend would obviously up the ante in these kinds of contentious issues.• Sometimes the parents upped the ante.• Sanctions upped the ante considerably in the Middle East crisis.• Looking to the future, however, the Forest Service decided to up the ante next time around.• The group mind plays Pong so well that Carpenter decides to up the ante.• Palmer's contribution was to up the ante.

→ penny ante

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ante• What they are now doing is compromising, in this half-baked manner, by raising the ante to 70.• Creating an economic asset in the form of a parental dividend would obviously up the ante in these kinds of contentious issues.• The group mind plays Pong so well that Carpenter decides to up the ante.• Sometimes the parents upped the ante.• And next year, the requests might double, with the whole dreary cycle restarting at an upped ante.

ante2 verb (past tensepst and past participlepp anted or anteed, present participle anteing)

1 ante up (something) phrasal verbphr v DSDGCto pay an amount of money in order to be able to do or be involved in something 支付

Small firms that want to expand must ante up large legal fees.

小公司想要扩展就必须支付一大笔律师费。

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ante• For the first time, women would ante up $ 1,000 to join a special group in the party.• My friends would have to ante up their credit card again for another possible $ 35 charge.

ante- /æntɪ/ prefix

1 BEFOREbefore 在…以前 → anti-, post-, pre-

antedate (=earlier than something)

早于

antenatal (=before birth)

产前的

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ante-• the antebellum South• to antedate

From Longman Business Dictionary

antean·te /ˈænti/ noun

raise/up the ante informal to make a situation more competitive, so that individuals or companies have more to gain or lose

The computer company’s lead may be short-lived as rivals raise the ante with faster machines.