wager
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English wajour, wageour, wager, from Old Northern French wageure, from wagier (“to pledge”) (compare Old French guagier, whence modern French gager and contemporary Walloon wadjî), ultimately from Frankish *waddjōn (“to pledge”), from Frankish *wadi ~ *waddī (“pledge”). See also wage.
Inflected forms:
form: wagers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wagers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wagering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wagered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wagered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A bet; a stake; a pledge.
pos: noun
examples: 1842-43, Edgar Allan Poe, "The Mystery of Marie Roget"
“This thicket was a singular, an exceedingly singular one. It was unusually dense. Within its naturally walled enclosure were three extraordinary stones, forming a seat with a back and footstool.… , whose boys were in the habit of closely examining the shrubberies about them in search of the bark of the sassafras. Would it be a rash wager – a wager of one thousand to one – that a day never passed over the heads of these boys without finding at least one of them ensconced in the umbrageous hall, and enthroned upon its natural throne? Those who would hesitate at such a wager, have either never been boys themselves, or have forgotten the boyish nature."
They have hired high-tech security companies to monitor wagers at a granular level and implemented sophisticated algorithmic systems to spot unusual gambling activity, ensuring that no athlete would be foolish enough to wager on a game. […] And prop bets have proved particularly ripe for manipulation. A prop bet is a wager on a specific occurrence during a game, rather than on the final result.
gloss: The subject of a bet.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: Besides these Plates, the Wagers may be as the Persons please among themselves, but the Horses must be evidenced by good Testimonies to have been bred in Ireland.
If any atheist can stake his soul for a wager against such an inexhaustible disproportion, let him never hereafter accuse others of credulity.
gloss: An offer to make oath.
pos: noun
gloss: To bet something; to put it up as collateral.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I'd wager my boots on it.
They have hired high-tech security companies to monitor wagers at a granular level and implemented sophisticated algorithmic systems to spot unusual gambling activity, ensuring that no athlete would be foolish enough to wager on a game.
gloss: To suppose; to dare say.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: I'll wager that Johnson knows something about all this.
Derived words: Pascal's wager
wager a dollar to a donut
wager a dollar to a doughnut
wager-boat
wager of battel
wager of battle
wager of law
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: закла́д
roman: zaklád
lang: Bulgarian
word: обло́г
roman: oblóg
lang: Bulgarian
word: бас
roman: bas
lang: Czech
word: sázka
lang: Dutch
word: weddenschap
lang: Esperanto
word: veto
lang: Finnish
word: veto
lang: Finnish
word: vedonlyönti
lang: French
word: pari
lang: German
word: Wette
lang: Hungarian
word: fogadás
lang: Italian
word: scommessa
lang: Macedonian
word: облог
roman: oblog
lang: Middle English
word: wajour
lang: Polish
word: zakład
lang: Russian
word: пари́
roman: parí
lang: Russian
word: закла́д
roman: zaklád
lang: Slovak
word: stávka
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: بحث
roman: bahs, bahis
lang: Ukrainian
word: парі́
roman: parí
lang: Ukrainian
word: закла́д
roman: zaklád