Wager
['weɪdʒə]
Definition
(v. t.) Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.
(v. t.) To hazard on the issue of a contest, or on some question that is to be decided, or on some casualty; to lay; to stake; to bet.
(v. i.) To make a bet; to lay a wager.
Inputed by Lawrence
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Bet, stake, pledge.
v. a. Bet, stake, pledge, lay, wage.
v. n. Bet, lay a wager.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of making a wager, signifies that you will resort to dishonest means to forward your schemes. If you lose a wager, you will sustain injury from base connections with those out of your social sphere. To win one, reinstates you in favor with fortune. If you are not able to put up a wager, you will be discouraged and prostrated by the adverseness of circumstances.
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Examples
- She would clasp me round the neck and laugh, the while, as if I did it for a wager. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- But I'll wager that at ninety she would be near as upright as me, and near as broad across the shoulders. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Though that's not your sort, I'll wager. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And I'll lay a wager we can get fine bricks out of the clay at Bott's corner. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- So I have heard; and knows a thing or two, I'll hold a wager. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- So far as is known, he still remains there, winning the wager which he has not come up to claim. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But the wager of battle is complete, even according to the fantastic fashions of Norman chivalry--Is it not, Father Aymer? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- You shall show money with lords for wagers, and beat 'em! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- At a later date a man named Day built a similar boat, wagering that he would go down one hundred yards and remain there twenty-four hours. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is said that Carman, the foreman of the machine shop, had gone the length of wagering Edison a box of cigars that the device would not work. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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