stake off

stake off

1. To mark the boundary of an area with or as if with stakes. A noun or pronoun can be used between "stake" and "off." He staked the area of the field off that we could use for our crops. Please stake off the part of the lawn you'd like sprayed for weeds.
2. To claim or reserve something or some area for oneself. A noun or pronoun can be used between "stake" and "off." Why don't you go in ahead of us and stake off a few seats in the theater? Dad's going to stake a spot off for us on the field to watch the fireworks.
See also: off, stake
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

stake something off

to mark out the boundaries of an area of land with stakes. The prospectors staked an area off for themselves. The prospectors staked off an area in which they would look for gold.
See also: off, stake
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • stake out
  • stake someone/something out
  • box out
  • keep within
  • keep within (something or some place)
  • in (one's) neck of the woods
  • in your, this, etc. neck of the woods
  • your neck of the woods
  • neck of the woods
  • neck of the woods, this
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Although I'm only advising a back, you may want to lay your stake off in running if she trades very short with more than a furlong to run, as her stamina could give out.
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He tends to travel very smoothly so should go quite short during the race, in which case you should lay your initial stake off for a risk-free profit just in case there is a momentary lapse in concentration.
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BT also blamed continuing stiff competition in the UK market for the fall in its profits, along with the cost of investing in the Japanese and Irish telecoms markets and the expense last year of taking complete control of BT Cellnet, buying a 40 per cent stake off Securicor for the fall in earnings.
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