Was (wer) ist Wager - definition
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The Wager; The Wager (disambiguation); Wager (disambiguation)
wager
¦ noun & verb more formal term for bet.
Origin
ME (also in the sense 'solemn pledge'): from Anglo-Norman Fr. wageure, from wager 'to wage'.
wager
(wagers, wagering, wagered)
1.
If you wager on the result of a horse race, football match, or other event, you give someone a sum of money which they give you back with extra money if the result is what you predicted, or which they keep if it is not. (JOURNALISM)
Just because people wagered on the Yankees did not mean that they liked them...
Golfers had wagered a good deal of money on Nick Faldo winning the championship.
= bet, gamble
VERB: V on n, V n on n
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Wager is also a noun.
There have been various wagers on certain candidates since the Bishop announced his retirement.
N-COUNT
2.
If you say that you will wager that something is the case, you mean you are confident that it is the case.
She was willing to wager that he didn't own the apartment he lived in...
= bet
VERB: V that
wager
I. n.
Bet, stake, pledge.
II. v. a.
Bet, stake, pledge, lay, wage.
III. v. n.
Bet, lay a wager.
Aussprachebeispiele für Wager
1. Pascal's Wager ,
36 Arguments for the Existence of God _ Rebecca Goldstein _ Talks at Google
2. A wager.
Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
3. wager on some crickets?
Amazonia _ Hugh Raffles _ Talks at Google
4. I'll take your wager!
Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
5. you'll have lost the wager.
Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
Beispiele aus Textkorpus für Wager
1. Along come the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries, and a sisterly wager.
2. If you had to bet, you‘d wager that the Republican establishment will eventually crush Huckabee.
3. Now the entire state is in on a vast meteorological wager.
4. Zarqawi‘s wager was that explosives, used with sufficient cruelty, could blow that premise to smithereens.
5. And I‘m willing to wager that Argentina will not win this competition.