WAGER
\wˈe͡ɪd͡ʒə], \wˈeɪdʒə], \w_ˈeɪ_dʒ_ə]\
Definitions of WAGER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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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maintain with or as if with a bet; "I bet she will be there!"
By Princeton University
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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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maintain with or as if with a bet; "I bet she will be there!"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.
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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.
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That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.
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To hazard on the issue of a contest, or on some question that is to be decided, or on some casualty; to lay; to stake; to bet.
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To make a bet; to lay a wager.
By Oddity Software
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Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.
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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.
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That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.
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To hazard on the issue of a contest, or on some question that is to be decided, or on some casualty; to lay; to stake; to bet.
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To make a bet; to lay a wager.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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That which is waged or pledged: something staked on the issue of anything: that on which bets are laid: (law) an offer to make oath.
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To hazard on the issue of anything.
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WAGERER.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To stake; bet.
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The staking of something, as money, upon the happening or not happening of an uncertain event; a bet.
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The thing pledged.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Something deposited, laid or hazarded on the event of a contest or some unsettled question; a bet; subject on which bets are laid: an offer to make oath of innocence or non-indebtedness; or the act of making oath along with others to fortify the defendant's oath.
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To offer a wager. Wager of battle, an ancient law by which disputes were to be settled by personal contest, but which is now abolished.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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An unsettled question whose opposite alternatives are supported by two parties, who lay down stakes to abide the issue of the event; a subject on which bets are laid; a bet; trial by battle.
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To hazard on the issue of an event; to lay a pledge; to bet.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. Something deposited or hazarded on the event of a contest or some unsettled question ; a bet ; a stake ; a pledge ;-that on which bets are laid ;-in law, formerly an offer to make oath of innocence in an accusation, or of non-indebtedness in a suit-now abolished ;-wager of battle, the giving of a gage or pledge, usually by throwing down a gauntlet or glove, for the trying of a cause by single combat with the accuser or the opponent, either in person or by champion-now abolished.
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