high-stakes

English

Adjective

high-stakes (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Involving large costs or rewards.
    • 2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC‎:
      But it was in the early 2000s that the high-stakes TV pop contest really arrived, along with promises that it would propel a few lucky auditionees to obscene levels of success and fame.
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