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• Noun something risked or staked on an uncertain event; bet: to place a wager on a soccer match. The act of betting. The subject or terms of a bet.

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English[edit]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for wager in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Pronunciation[edit]

• (General American)IPA^(key): /ˈweɪdʒɚ/

• Audio (US)

• Rhymes: -eɪdʒə(ɹ)

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle Englishwager, wageor, wageoure, wajour, from Anglo-Normanwageure, from Old Northern Frenchwagier(“to pledge”) (compare Old Frenchguagier, whence modern French gager). See also wage.

Noun[edit]

wager (pluralwagers)

1. Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.
   • 1842-43, Edgar Allan Poe, 'The Mystery of Marie Roget'

     “This thicket was a singular, an exceedingly singular one. It was unusually dense. Within its naturally walled enclosure were three extraordinary stones, forming a seat with a back and footstool.[...] , whose boys were in the habit of closely examining the shrubberies about them in search of the bark of the sassafras. Would it be a rash wager – a wager of one thousand to one – that a day never passed over the heads of these boys without finding at least one of them ensconced in the umbrageous hall, and enthroned upon its natural throne? Those who would hesitate at such a wager, have either never been boys themselves, or have forgotten the boyish nature.'

2. That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.
3. (law) A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event.
   • 1673, Sir William Temple, Advancement of Trade in Ireland

     Besides these Plates, the Wagers may be as the Persons please among themselves, but the Horses must be evidenced by good Testimonies to have been bred in Ireland.

   • 1692, Richard Bentley, A Confutation of Atheism

     If any atheist can stake his soul for a wager against such an inexhaustible disproportion, let him never hereafter accuse others of credulity.

4. (law) An offer to make oath.

Derived terms[edit]

• wager of battel, wager of battle

Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

wager (third-person singular simple presentwagers, present participlewagering, simple past and past participlewagered)

1. (transitive) To bet something; to put it up as collateral
2. (intransitive,figuratively) To suppose; to dare say.

   I'll wager that Johnson knows something about all this.

Synonyms[edit]

• (to daresay):lay odds

Translations[edit]

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Etymology 2[edit]

From the verb, wage +‎ -er.

Noun[edit]

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wager (pluralwagers)

Place A Wager

1. Agent noun of wage; one who wages.
   • 1912, Pocumtack Valley Memorial Association, History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, p. 65:

     They were wagers of warfare against the wilderness and the Indians, and founders of families and towns.

   • 1957, Elsa Maxwell, How to Do It; Or, The Lively Art of Entertaining, page 7:

     Hatshepsut was no wager of wars, no bloodstained conqueror.

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