wager
wager is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.
- transitive verb. 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.
- transitive verb. That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.
- transitive verb. 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.
- intransitive verb. To make a bet; to lay a wager.
- noun. the act of gambling
"he did it on a bet"
- noun. the money risked on a gamble
- verb. maintain with or as if with a bet
"I bet she will be there!"
- verb. stake on the outcome of an issue
"I bet $100 on that new horse"
"She played all her money on the dark horse"
Synonyms
Common word forms
wagers, wagered, wagerer, wagering
Words from these letters
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