Definition of Wager

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Definition of Wager

Wager

Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.

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.

That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.

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.

To make a bet; to lay a wager.

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Wager Quotations

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise Pascal

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise Pascal

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
Henry Fielding

Wager Translations

wager in Dutch is wedden
wager in French is parier
wager in German is Wette
wager in Norwegian is vedde
wager in Spanish is apuesta

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