Wager

Definition of wager:

part of speech: noun

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.

part of speech: verb

To stake on an issue.

part of speech: noun

WAGERER.

part of speech: noun

Something staked on an issue; bet.

part of speech: verb

To bet.

part of speech: noun

A bet; something risked on an uncertainty.

part of speech: verb

To hazard on the issue of anything.

Usage examples for wager:

• Juan was well known for a brave man, though a fool, and the priest and the governor wished to try him on a wager "Philippine Folk-Tales", Clara Kern Bayliss, Berton L. Maxfield, W. H. Millington, Fletcher Gardner, Laura Watson Benedict.

• His duplicity was proved afterwards by the confession of his elder brother Ralph, a young man little better than himself, that the two girls had been the subject of a wager between them, which he had lost. "When Ghost Meets Ghost", William Frend De Morgan.

• I would wager that, three months afterwards, the bag would contain none but the governed, and that he would think it only fit to be flung into the water. "The Roman Question", Edmond About.

• As I haven't any good points, they'll be able to put some into me, I'll wager "The Squirrel Inn", Frank R. Stockton.