wager

A bet; a stake; a pledge.

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The subject of a bet.

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.

• 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.

An offer to make oath.

To bet something; to put it up as collateral.transitive

• I'd wager my boots on it.

To suppose; to dare say.figurativelyintransitive

• I'll wager that Johnson knows something about all this.

Agent noun of wage; one who wages.agentform-of

• They were wagers of warfare against the wilderness and the Indians, and founders of families and towns.
• Hatshepsut was no wager of wars, no bloodstained conqueror.