Usually means: Bet placed involving risk and reward.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. wager: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. wager: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wager: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wager: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wager: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wager, wager: Wordnik
  7. wager: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Wager, wager: Wiktionary
  9. wager: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. wager: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. wager: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. wager: Dictionary.com
  13. wager (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. wager: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Wager: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Wager: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. wager: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. wager: Rhymezone
  19. wager: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. wager: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. wager: Free Dictionary
  22. wager: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. wager: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. wager: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
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  3. wager: Legal dictionary
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wager: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. WAGER: Acronym Finder
  3. wager: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. WAGer: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Keno Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See wagered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A bet; a stake; a pledge.
noun:  The subject of a bet.
noun:  (law) 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.
noun:  (law) An offer to make oath.
noun:  (law) A wager is a judicial prejudice constituted by acknowledgement of power.
verb:  (transitive) To bet something; to put it up as collateral.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To suppose; to dare say.
noun:  A surname.

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