Wager
WordNet
noun
(1) The act of gambling
"He did it on a bet"
(2) The money risked on a gamble
verb
(3) Maintain with or as if with a bet
"I bet she will be there!"
(4) Stake on the outcome of an issue
"I bet $100 on that new horse"
"She played all her money on the dark horse"
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Etymology 1
From wageure, from wagier "to pledge".
Noun
- Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.
- 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.
- That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.
Noun
- 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, p. 7:
- Hatshepsut was no wager of wars, no bloodstained conqueror.
- 1912, Pocumtack Valley Memorial Association, History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, p. 65:
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