wager
Other forms: wagers; wagered; wagering
To wager is to bet: you might say to your fellow train passengers, "I'll wager ten dollars that we won't get to Chicago on time."
You can use the word wager as either a noun or a verb, to mean "place a bet" or "the amount of money being risked in a bet." So you could offer a wager at the poker table, or ask if anyone wants to wager on Monday's football game. Either way you use it, wager is a Middle English word that comes from the Old North French wage, "to pledge."
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the act of gamblingsynonyms: bettypes:daily doublea single bet on two horse races in the same dayparimutuelbetting where winners share the total amount wageredparlaya series of wagers in which the winnings from one wager are used as a stake for the subsequent wagersplace beta bet that a horse will finish a race no worse than secondsuperfectaa bet that you can pick the first four finishers in a race in the right order
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the money risked on a gamble
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maintain with or as if with a betsynonyms: bettype of:anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promisemake a prediction about; tell in advance
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stake on the outcome of an issueplaymake bets
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