wager

Meanings

Noun

• Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.
• That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.
• 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.
• An offer to make oath.
• Agent noun of wage; one who wages.

Verb

• To bet something; to put it up as collateral.
• To suppose; to dare say.

Related

Similar words

• lay odds

Origin

• From Middle English wajour, wageour, wager, from Old Northern French wageure, from wagier (compare Old French guagier, whence modern French gager). See also wage.
• From the verb, wage + -er.