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Synonyms
an·te (ăńtē)

[From Latin, before.]

noun 

  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)

verb: -ted or -teed, -te·ing, -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.