Wager

Noun

 * 1) Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.
 * 2) 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.
 * 3) That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.

Verb

 * 1) To put something up as collateral

Noun

 * 1) Agent noun of wage; one who wages.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1) * 1957, Elsa Maxwell, How to Do It; Or, The Lively Art of Entertaining, p. 7:
 * Hatshepsut was no wager of wars, no bloodstained conqueror.

Verbs for Wager
accept—; agree upon—-; cast—; chance—; claim—; contest—; decide—; determine—; force—; frame—; gamble on—; lay—; propose—; record—; release from—; speculate on—; stake—on; transact—; venture—; — challenges; —hazards; —pledges.

Thesaurus
adventure, ante, ante up, back, bet, bet on, blind bargain, book, borderline case, call, chance, chance it, chunk, contingency, cover, double contingency, fade, gamble, gamble on, game, guess, handbook, hazard, lay, lay a wager, lay down, make a bet, meet a bet, open question, parlay, pass, piece of guesswork, play, play against, plunge, pot, punt, put on, question, rely on fortune, risk, run a chance, run the risk, see, set, set at hazard, shot, sight-unseen transaction, stake, stand pat, take a chance, take a flier, take chances, tempt fortune, toss-up, touch and go, trust to chance, try the chance, undecided issue, venture

Pronunciation




Etymology 1
From wageure, from  wagier "to pledge".

Etymology 2
From the verb, to wage + -er.

Noun

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 * Greenlandic:
 * Hungarian: tét
 * Italian: posta (f); puntata (f)
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 * Dutch:
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 * Hungarian: fogadás
 * Italian: scommessa (f)
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 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: vedonlyöntikohde
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 * Italian: evento su cui si scommette (see: scommettere)
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Verb

 * Dutch: wedden, weddenschap afsluiten, verwedden
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