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 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++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。 → 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 tense and past participle anted or anteed, present participle anteing)  1 ante up (something) phrasal verb 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。→ See Verb table

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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 antedateFrom Longman Business Dictionaryantean‧te /ˈænti/ noun raise/up the ante informal to make a situation more competitive, so that individuals or companies have more to gain or loseThe computer company’s lead may be short-lived as rivals raise the ante with faster machines.Origin ante- Latin ante “before, in front of” ante1 (1800-1900) ante-

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an‧te¹ /ˈænti/ nounup/raise the ante to increase your demands or try to get more things from a situation, even though this involves more risks:
    They’ve upped the ante by making a $120 million bid to buy the company.
⇨ penny ante

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ante² verb (past tense and past participle anted or anteed, present participle anteing)
     
ante up (something) phrasal verb
  to pay an amount of money in order to be able to do or be involved in something:
    Small firms that want to expand must ante up large legal fees.

anteBrE /ˈænti/ 🔊NAmE /ˈænti/ 🔊 noun [singular] ●raise/up the ˈanteto increase the level of sth, especially demands or sums of money 提高要求；增加金额