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Another word for wager

Noun

  1. A venture depending on chance

    2. See also:

    gambling

  2. Something risked on an uncertain outcome

    3. See also:

    gambling

Another word for wager

Verb

  1. To put up as a stake in a game or speculation

    2. See also:

    gambling

  2. To make a bet

    3. Idioms:
    See also:

    gambling

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Another word for wager

Noun
    2. See also:

    bet

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • Past-Deidre made a wager with me.

  • I pulled her Sight, so she couldn't tell I was lying, then asked what she'd wager on it.

  • In 1231, in such a suit, the bishop of London accepts wager of battle (Pollock and Maitland, op. cit.

  • Nucleus: Wager in Ann.

  • 30; Wager, On Nuclear Division in the Hymenomycetes, Ann.

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