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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Pawn :: Pawn (n.) A stake hazarded in a wager.
Go :: Go (v. t.) To bet or wager; as, I'll go you a shilling..
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..
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.
Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To deposit, as a wager; to stake; to risk..
Wager :: Wager (v. i.) To make a bet; to lay a wager.
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..
Gaming :: Gaming (n.) The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers; gambling.
Wagered :: Wagered (imp. & p. p.) of Wage.
Set :: Set (n.) That which is staked; a wager; a venture; a stake; hence, a game at venture..
Set :: Set (v. t.) To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
Gage :: Gage (n.) To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge.
Split :: Split (n.) the division by a player of one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value; the player is usually obliged to increase the amount wagered by placing a sum equal to the original bet on the new hand thus created..
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..
Wagerer :: Wagerer (n.) One who wagers, or lays a bet..
Depone :: Depone (v. t.) To lay, as a stake; to wager..
Battel :: Battel (n.) A single combat; as, trial by battel. See Wager of battel, under Wager..
Wager :: Wager (v. t.) 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..
Lay :: Lay (v. i.) To lay a wager; to bet.
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