ante

The definition of an ante is the chosen amount that is gambled by each player at the beginning of a poker game.

(noun)

An example of an ante in poker may be a beginning amount of $200.

An ante is defined as an amount of money paid prior to a business venture so that the payer's participation in the venture is definite.

(noun)

An example of an ante would be 1 million dollars deposited in an account intended to be used for a group's attempt at beginning a new corporation.

An ante is one person's portion of a whole group's expenses.

(noun)

An example of an ante is the $40 one person may owe on a dinner bill totaling $250 for the group.

To ante is defined as to put in the beginning amount of money required at the start of a poker game.

(verb)

An example of someone who has to ante is a player who wants to enter a poker game and who puts $100 on the table to do so.

To ante means to pay.

(verb)

An example of someone who must ante up is a person who owes others money.

See ante in Webster's New World College Dictionary

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noun

Origin: L, before

transitive verb, intransitive verb anted or anteed, anteing

Origin: < L ante, before

See ante in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

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.
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 an·ted or an·teed, an·te·ing, an·tes

verb, transitive