Ante
Ante noun - The amount of money that is demanded as payment for something.
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Pay
Pay noun - The money paid regularly to a person for labor or services.
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But he starts getting more and more interested as she ups to ante, and shooting his partner seems like a small price to pay... Subverted when he denies her in the end.
Source: Film / The Hateful 8 -
So she ups the ante with this:President: If you win, I'll double your pay.
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An episode of Blackadder revolves around Edmund having to pay back a loan he took from such a group - which is, as it happens, the Anglican Church - under penalty of imminent death if he doesn't ante up.
Source: Loan Shark
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