sake

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noun

Plural noun:

sakes

1.
Cause, interest or account.
For the sake of argument
2.
Purpose or end; reason.
For old times' sake
3.
The benefit or regard of someone or something.
2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 242a-b. But it will be for your sake that we'll undertake to refute this thesis, […]
4.
(obsolete except in phrases) Contention, strife; guilt, sin, accusation or charge.
5.
(alt of, alternative, countable, uncountable)Alternative spelling of saké.

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atsakelooksakeunsakewithersakekeepsake namesake sacklessfuck's sakeart for art's sakefor any sakefor cripes sakefor cripes' sakefor fudge's sakefor Goddess's sakefor gosh sakefor land's sakefor land's sake alivefor mercy's sakefor name's sakefor old sake's sake

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Middle English sake (sake, cause), from Old English sacu (cause, lawsuit, legal action, complaint, issue, dispute), from *saku, from Proto-Germanic *sakō (affair, thing, charge, accusation, matter), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- (to investigate).