Definition of wager

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Wager (v. t.) 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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Vie :: Vie (n.) A contest for superiority; competition; rivalry; strife; also, a challenge; a wager..
Depone :: Depone (v. t.) To lay, as a stake; to wager..
Revie :: Revie (v. i.) To exceed an adversary's wager in card playing.
Stake :: Stake (v. t.) To put at hazard upon the issue of competition, or upon a future contingency; to wager; to pledge..
Bet :: Bet (n.) That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge; a wager..
Wager :: Wager (v. t.) 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..
Wagering :: Wagering (a.) Hazarding; pertaining to the act of one who wagers.
Thimblerig :: Thimblerig (v. t.) To swindle by means of small cups or thimbles, and a pea or small ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to another, the victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is; hence, to cheat by any trick..
Wager :: Wager (v. t.) That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.
Wagerer :: Wagerer (n.) One who wagers, or lays a bet..
Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To deposit, as a wager; to stake; to risk..
Better :: Better (n.) One who bets or lays a wager.
Compurgation :: Compurgation (v. t.) The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; -- called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager..
Set :: Set (n.) That which is staked; a wager; a venture; a stake; hence, a game at venture..
Wage :: Wage (v. t.) To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar..
Vie :: Vie (v. t.) To stake; to wager.
Pawn :: Pawn (n.) A stake hazarded in a wager.
Roulette :: Roulette (n.) A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game..
Wager :: Wager (v. t.) Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge..
Play :: Play (v. t.) To engage in, or go together with, as a contest for amusement or for a wager or prize; as, to play a game at baseball..
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