UPTHEANTE
up the ante
Verb
- To raise the stakes of a hand of poker
- With three aces and two jacks, he thought it was safe to up the ante.
- To make something more desirable.
- ''The school system cannot raise teachers' salaries, so they are providing better benefits as an effort to up the ante.
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