wager

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eɪdʒə(r)

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman wageure, from Old French wagier "to pledge".

Noun

Wikipedia wager (plural wagers)

1. Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.
2. 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.
3. That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.

Translations

a stake; a pledge

Basque: trabes (eu) Finnish: panos (fi), veto (fi) French: mise (fr) f. Greenlandic: eqquiniut (kl) Hungarian: tét (hu)

Italian: posta (f); puntata (f) Russian: ставка (ru) f. Spanish: apuesta (es) f. Tagalog: taya (tl)

an agreement

Dutch: weddenschap (nl) f. Finnish: veto (fi), vedonlyönti (fi) French: pari (fr) m. Hungarian: fogadás (hu)

Italian: scommessa (f) Polish: zakład (pl) m. Russian: пари (ru) n.

the subject of a bet

Dutch: inzet (nl) m. Finnish: vedonlyöntikohde (fi) Greek: στοίχημα (el) n.

Italian: evento su cui si scommette (see: scommettere) Spanish: apuesta (es) f.

Verb

wager (third-person singular simple present wagers, present participle wagering, simple past and past participle wagered)

1. To put something up as collateral

Translations

put up as collateral

Dutch: wedden, weddenschap afsluiten, verwedden Finnish: lyödä vetoa (fi)

French: parier (fr) Spanish: apostar (es)

Etymology 2

From the verb, to wage + -er.

Noun

wager (plural wagers)

1. 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.