Definition of wager
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Examples of wager in a Sentence
He has a wager on the game.
I don't think the horse will win. What's your wager?
Recent Examples of wager from the Web
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It’s by far the biggest bearish wager on Hong Kong’s stock exchange, where most of China’s top companies have listings.
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Oil-market news: Money managers’ WTI net-long positions, the difference between wagers on a price increase and bets on a decline, was little changed at 133,606 futures and options, according to the CFTC report released Friday.
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Amazon has long received a pass for its big bets from Wall Street, which views them as a wager on reshaping the order of things.
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Steve Jobs was making what was at the time an extraordinarily chancy wager.
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In the end, Bowden wagers that continued acceptance and containment of a nuclear North Korea is how the current crisis should and will most likely play out.
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Mayweather, the boxer, has a big advantage on McGregor, the mixed martial arts fighter, but that fact seemingly hasn't tempered opinions — or wagers in Las Vegas — one way or the other.
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An Aurora man who collected cash wagers from commercial, electronic gambling machines has been charged with stealing more than $25,000 from a gaming company in Naperville, police said Monday.
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There have been a total of 33 wager requests and approvals since 2011.
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Origin and Etymology of wager
Middle English wageour pledge, bet, from Anglo-French wageure, from *wager
Examples of wager in a Sentence
She wagered $50 on the game.
I wouldn't wager against them.
Recent Examples of wager from the Web
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Attacks on the media, often led by the president himself, seem aimed at squashing out the press entirely by wagering reporting missteps as proof of moral worthlessness.
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A highlight of the day was wagering on the Kentucky Derby race, which was live-streamed from Churchill Downs.
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The crowd of 140,327 and wagering total of $94,127,434 were records, bettering the marks set last year. Ridden by Javier Castellano, Cloud Computing ran 13/16 miles in 1:55.98 and paid $28.80, $8.60 and $6.
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The track’s regular satellite wagering will allow patrons to wager on the Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the Triple Crown.
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Perhaps more importantly, the dispute raises red flags about the integrity of a pari-mutuel wagering business with an annual handle, or pari-mutuels wagering total, of more than $100 million.
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Police and prosecutors were willing to wager on that scenario.
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First Known Use of wager
1602
WAGER Defined for English Language Learners
wager
playDefinition of wager for English Language Learners
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: an agreement in which people try to guess what will happen and the person who guesses wrong has to give something (such as money) to the person who guesses right
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: the money or other valuable thing that you could win or lose in a bet
wager
Definition of wager for English Language Learners
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: to risk losing something (such as money) if your guess about what will happen is wrong
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—used in the phrase I'll wager to indicate what you think will happen or what you believe is probably true
WAGER Defined for Kids
Definition of wager for Students
wagered
;wagering
: to bet on the result of a contest or question
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