1.Games The stake that each poker player must put into the pool before receiving a hand or before receiving new cards. See synonyms at bet. 2. A price to be paid, especially as one's share; cost: “Whether they could actually turn back Soviet policy depended on many factors that Moscow might yet choose to test by upping the ante” (Foreign Affairs).
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Inflected forms: an·ted or an·teed, an·te·ing, an·tes
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1.Games To put (one's stake) into the pool in poker. 2. To pay: Let's ante up the bill.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1.Games To put one's stake into the pool in poker: Don't look at your cards until everyone has anted.2. To pay up.
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