noun. The stake that each poker player must put into the pool before receiving a hand or before receiving new cards.

noun. A price to be paid, especially as one's share; cost.

intransitive verb. To put (one's stake) into the pool in poker.

intransitive verb. To pay (money or a fee).

intransitive verb. To put one's stake into the pool in poker.

intransitive verb. To pay for something.

A prefix of Latin origin, originally only in compounds or derivatives taken from the Latin or formed from Latin elements, as in antecessor, antepenultimate, antemeridian, etc., but now a familiar English formative, meaning before, either in place or in time.

In heraldry, ingrafted: said of one color or metal broken into another by means of dovetailed, nebulé, embattled, or ragulé edges. Also enté.

noun. In the game of poker, the stake or bet deposited in the pool by each player before drawing new cards; also, the receptacle for the stakes.

In the game of poker, to deposit stakes in the pool or common receptacle for them: commonly used in the phrase to ante up.

noun. Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins.

verb. To put up (an ante).

noun. A price or cost, as in up the ante.

noun. In poker and other games, the contribution made by all players to the pot before dealing the cards.

verb. To pay the ante in poker. Often used ante up.

verb. To make an investment in money, effort, or time before knowing one's chances.

verb. place one's stake

noun. (poker) the initial contribution that each player makes to the pot

"A better quantification of these effects ex ante is critical."

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