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An ante is something you agree to risk before you know what will happen. The dealer asked the gamblers, "What's the ante." I seemed to have upped the ante on wiktionary when said I knew how to write IPA symbols.

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To pay the ante in poker. To make an investment in money, effort, or time before knowing one's chances.

ante

(poker) the initial contribution that each player makes to the pot place one's stake

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You don't think we're after that penny-ante reward?
Big shot or a penny-ante chiseler.
In that penny-ante game?
The penny-ante game Lee Morgan's running?
It's so penny-ante she's cleaning up 12,000 a week just around a few neighborhood stores and most of the bets are dimes and nickels.
What chance would ante a judge and a jury?
You know, Rocky this is no penny-ante reform wave this priest is starting.
I don't sell to penny-ante guys.
Well, don't forget, this penny-ante guy asked you in a nice way.
Ante, gentlemen.
How about raising the ante?
Why he ever started this cheap penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know.
For a while, I figured out that sitting out this penny-ante stretch. would be a kind of vacation. take the heat off me for another job.
You're not gonna raise the ante by smearing my lipstick.
Ante.
Ante two.
Ante, gentlemen!
I'd be blamed, the girl'd be involved, and you'd raise the ante.
Gambler, yes, but hardly no account. You know, Captain Andy it's dead waste to stay cooped up here in this penny-ante existence.
What's the ante?
All my life, I've been chiseling in penny-ante games.
Maybe I should have doubled the ante.
Why worry about the ante with three million still in the pot?
Forget these penny-ante divorce cases.
You're so bright, working on your own, you penny-ante gumshoe.
Yes, just a five-cent ante, three of the boys from my lodge.
I've just been playing nickel ante with friends.
Penny ante?
This is no penny ante game, Alex.
Why he ever started this cheap penny-ante Building and Loan I'll never know.
He's gonna ante up this time.
Besides, it's a penny-ante game.
I'll get my ante in there. - Good night.
When are you gonna raise the ante?
You get involved in a penny-ante stickup and start blasting and kill some old guy.

News and current affairs

Ideally - from their point of view - they will bulk up without attracting regulatory scrutiny, i.e., no ex ante limits on their risk-taking activities will be imposed.
An ex ante debt restructuring that reduces the size of any new loans and renders the debt sustainable before any reforms are implemented stands a good chance of crowding in investment, stabilizing incomes, and setting the stage for recovery.
In time, however, the changes might amount to less than was first hoped, and could actually bring about a situation that arguably is worse than the status quo ante (the French Revolution, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Iranian Revolution come to mind).
When they found that he was stone deaf to their threats, NATO was forced to raise the ante again, by actually bombing military targets in Yugoslavia.
Egypt's Kifaya Movement has raised the ante in its opposition to President Hosni Mubarak's regime by issuing a massive report that dares to name names and detail corruption among the country's leaders.
But I reject the notion that a PRI victory would automatically restore the status quo ante, as if Mexico, its links to the world, and the PRI itself had stood still throughout the last 12 years.
In July, the Hague Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia charged two Croatian generals - Rahim Ademi and Ante Gotovina - with war crimes.
After the recent financial crisis, Goldman Sachs upped the ante and projected that the combined GDP of the BRICs might exceed that of the G-7 countries by 2027, about 10 years sooner than initially believed.
If the PKK is able to launch a major attack on troops or civilians inside Turkey, the public outcry might leave Erdogan with little choice but to up the ante.
A recent study by Andy Haldane and others at the Bank of England casts doubt on the prospect of a return to the status quo ante.
One is that the AWF error won't occur, because there are no reliable ex ante signs of rising potential instability.
But the promise of a return to the status quo ante of risk-free public debt is not compatible with the continuing limits on the socialization of national debt.
If such banks fail, they are resolved by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in the normal fashion, and this has always been the market's ex ante expectation.
Given that such a move would imply that China's claim to the islands may have some legitimacy, Abe's possible concession on this point is no trivial matter; it could even mean that he will agree with China to restore the status quo ante.
Japan, however, raised the ante with new offers of financial incentives.
Those inept comments fatally undercut the government's summoning of the Chinese ambassador to demand a return to the status quo ante.
But when they found that Milosevic was resistant to moral pressure, the NATO allies were forced to raise the ante by threatening the use of military force.
There can be no return to the status quo ante.

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