put on the line

What does put on the line mean?

put on the line means "expose to a chance of loss or damage".

What is another word for put on the line?

Close synonyms include risk, lay on the line. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is put on the line a common word?

put on the line is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for put on the line come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.