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Stakes vs Jackpot - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between stakes and jackpot

is that stakes is plural of lang=en while jackpot is a money prize pool which accumulates until the conditions are met for it to be won.

As a verb stakes

is third-person singular of stake.

stakes

English

Noun

(head)
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012
  • , date=May 9 , author=John Percy , title=Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2-3 on agg): match report , work=the Telegraph citation , page= , passage=Holloway has unfinished business in the Premier League after relegation last year and he will make a swift return if he can overcome West Ham a week on Saturday. Sam Allardyce, the West Ham manager, will be acutely aware that when the stakes are high, Blackpool are simply formidable.}}

    Verb

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  • (stake)
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    jackpot

    English

    Etymology 1

    Attested as + pot.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A money prize pool which accumulates until the conditions are met for it to be won.
  • * 2000 , Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, Choices, values, and frames ,
  • If no player picks all six numbers correctly, the jackpot' is rolled over and added to the next week's '''jackpot'''; several weeks of rollovers can build up ' jackpots up to $350 million or more.
  • A large cash prize or money.
  • An unexpected windfall or reward.
  • Usage notes
    * By metonymy, jackpot is also the word for several types of poker which feature jackpots (prize pools which accumulate until won). ** 1920 , , **: ... they played red-dog and twenty-one and jackpot from dinner to dawn, and on the occasion of one man's birthday persuaded him to buy sufficient champagne for a hilarious celebration.
    Derived terms
    * hit the jackpot

    Etymology 2

    . Criminal slang usage as "trouble, especially an arrest" attested 1902.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A difficult situation.
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    Alternative forms

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    Noun

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