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wager English

Meaning wager meaning

What does wager mean?
Definitions in simple English

wager Verb

— If you wager, you make a bet (gamble). I can wager that Australians will win cricket world cup this time as well. I wagered my watch on the race, and lost it. Do you care to wager.

wager Noun

— If you wager you make a bet; you gamble something. I made a big wager, but I won. Pascal's wager corroborated the existence of god.

wager

— noun (= bet) the act of gambling he did it on a bet — verb (= bet, play) stake on the outcome of an issue I bet $100 on that new horse She played all her money on the dark horse — verb (= bet) maintain with or as if with a bet I bet she will be there! — noun (= stake) the money risked on a gamble

Synonyms wager synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as wager?

wager English » English

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Topics wager topics

What do people use wager to talk about?
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation

Gambling
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to someone in trouble

Risk
Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Epistemic moods Unsure

Think so

Conjugation wager conjugation

How do you conjugate wager?

wager · verb

Examples wager examples

How do I use wager in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

However, I'll wager Miss Cherry would love to see this.
I'd wager your friend has something up his sleeve again, Dr. Lanyon.
I'll wager he's still alive.
I wouldn't wager on it. - We shall see, sir.
That's a wager.
I'll wager 1 00 marks on Phillip of Arras!
I won this cup on a wager.
I wager she's faster than you, at that.
I'll wager my gout hurts him more than it does me.
I'll wager you have some Irish in you.
Not so good a noise, I'll wager.
I wager the best thing about it is its name.
I'll wager she doesn't move without a corset.
We'll put on those shall praise your excellence, bring you, in short, together, and wager on your heads.
If you stop to think, because they no longer have a reason to keep you two locked up, I'll wager.
I'll wager this is the richest fruitcake you've ever seen.
Then you can settle our wager for us.
I'll wager 100 marks on Phillip of Arras!
I'll wager you didn't think of it yourself.
I have a wager here.
Always respect a wager.
A little jewellery store, I'll wager, eh?
Full of snakes and crocodiles, I'll wager.
I'm willing to wager that you've about got your man.
And I'll wager she's a blonde.
I'll wager you're the man with the mortgage.
We'll make a wager.
I'll take your wager.
I wager he could smell if one franc were missing.
Sometimes all night, I wager.
I'll wager it's one of Ivan's lads.
I wager there's a cutthroat behind every tree trunk.

News and current affairs

The precautionary principle is a variant on Pascal's famous wager on the existence of God.
Pascal's wager applies entirely to one person.
Our current political and economic institutions rest upon the wager that a decentralized market provides a better social-planning, coordination, and capital-allocation mechanism than any other that we have yet been able to devise.
Many of us believe that such an impossible wager can be fulfilled only by a providential man, with all the hopes - and dangers - that this entails.
The Obama administration has staked significant political capital on the wager that Myanmar's promise may finally bear fruit.
Beyond the often partisan and quintessentially French polemics about Sarkozy's NATO decision, it is possible to discern what might best be termed a three-way wager by the French president.
The second part of Sarkozy's wager concerns reforming and renewing the alliance.
There is no guarantee, of course, that the three parts of this wager will pay off.

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