Word Finder - wager

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

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

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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.

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An offer to make oath.

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To bet something; to put it up as collateral

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I'd wager my boots on it.

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To suppose; to dare say.

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I'll wager that Johnson knows something about all this.

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.

For a wager he rode his horse to the extreme verge of the cliff.

There was also a considerable amount of new legislatiofl with the object of protecting the minor subjects of the crown, and the system of trial by jurors was advanced to the detriment of the absurd old practices of trial by ordeal and trial by wager of battle.

They could earn perhaps ten thousand pounds by placing a wager.

If they all come in with a decent wager down then you will be a very happy person indeed.

How much shall we wager that he doesn't keep up payments for his and Whitney's daughter, Bobbi Kristina, either?

Rowling's ups the ante, though, knitting in this army of new characters, but her wager is not a bluff and the cards she shows in Order of the Phoenix back up her gamble.

Yes that won him a 20 wager from the film crew who had a bet with him about making the biggest possible sexual innuendo.

To wager round petition listed his tail that extends salt cellars from.

Did I lose a wager, accidentally enter the wrong competition or just open somebody else's mail?

By the way, Caroline, the national lottery is a much better wager.

A five-coin wager lawyers can come they also settle s through kings.

Splitting pairs is an option by which you can increase your original wager.

At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak sense of Pascal 's wager.

After that to wager round tournaments from companies similarly many people.

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Two media folk in Millbank regularly wager bets on how long certain politicians can go in an interview without uttering their favorite words.

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Did I lose a wager, accidentally enter the wrong competition or just open somebody else 's mail?

Current wager you a sense allows you to told sunday mirror.

I 'd put a small wager on a tabloid.

A great comedy routine with a little wager which gets the audience interested !

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Wager of law continued in trespass where there was no battery or bloodshed.

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Like the offline slots, with these online games you place a wager on one or several lines, betting on which winning combination of symbols will appear on the next spin.

At some casinos the machines are also divided according to coin denominations (the maximum amount of money you can wager in one spin).

When playing a 1-line slot, you can click "Bet One" to add one coin to your wager or hit "Bet Max" to bet three coins.

She ignored his wager.

Insane persons and persons under guardianship are excluded by the constitution, and " all persons convicted of bribery, perjury, larceny or of infamous crime, or who shall make or become directly or indirectly interested in any bet or wager the result of which shall depend upon any election," or who shall participate as principal, second or challenger in any duel, are excluded by legislative enactment.

Its antiquity is attested by the symbol and formula used in its procedure, the lance (hasta) as the sign of true ownership, the oath or wager (sacramentum), the ancient formula for recovery of property or assertion of liberty.

You will wager your soul as well?

Do you know what happens if you lose a wager to a deity? past-Death challenged.

Critical how many wager will bring have more than machines empress is.

If starting pitchers are not exactly as listed or quoted, your wager is deemed void.

I would lay any wager it is about Miss Williams.

In order to win the wager she must persuade the " victim " to accept her offer without there being any true need.

Tony Hawks accepts a wager to go on a mission to reach the top of the charts in just six months.

I'd put a small wager on a tabloid.

Those with zero or negative scores are given a small amount to wager for the final round.

But a romantic interest attaches to the wreck of the " Wager," one of Anson's fleet, on a desert island near Chiloe, for it bore fruit in the charming narrative of Captain John Byron, which will endure for all time.

Moor in 1746, and Captain Coats in 1751, who examined the Wager Inlet up to the end.

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Wager speaks with greater reserve, acknowledging, however, the central body to be a nucleus of a rudimentary type, but devoid of nuclear membrane and nucleolus.

Two of his vessels failed to round the Horn, another, the "Wager," was wrecked in the Golfo de Pallas on the coast of Chile.

Anatole turned to the Englishman and taking him by one of the buttons of his coat and looking down at him--the Englishman was short--began repeating the terms of the wager to him in English.

Leaving Fort Churchill in July 1742, he discovered the Wager river and Repulse Bay.

A fusion of nuclei was originally described by Jansens and Leblanc, but it was observed neither by Wager nor Guillermond and is probably absent.