stake a claim
Declare your rights
To stake a claim is to assert ownership or rights over something, whether physical territory or abstract domains like ideas or opportunities.
The expression comes from the practice of marking land boundaries with wooden stakes to establish mining or property rights.
Today it's used broadly: She staked a claim to the corner office before anyone else arrived.
The startup is staking a claim in the electric vehicle market.
- mark outIndicate boundaries visibly
- assertDeclare confidently true
- possessionState of owning
- ownershipLegal right of possession
- territoryLand under jurisdiction
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