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Look up wager in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wager can refer to: Wager, the amount of a valuable staked when gambling on an event with an uncertain
Wager
Argument for the belief in God
Pascal's wager is a philosophical argument advanced by Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), a French mathematician, philosopher, physicist, and theologian. This
Pascal's_wager
2023 history book by David Grann
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder is the fifth nonfiction book by American journalist David Grann. The book describes the Wager Mutiny
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
The_Wager:_A_Tale_of_Shipwreck,_Mutiny_and_Murder
Wagering something of value on a random event
Gambling (also known as betting or gaming) is the wagering of something of value ("the stakes") on a random event with the intent of winning something
Gambling
Teacher and schoolmistress in Colonial Williamsburg
Ann Wager (1716 – August 20, 1774) was a teacher and schoolmistress in colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. She married William Wager, but was widowed in
Ann_Wager
Remote, uninhabited island of Chilean Patagonia
Wager Island (Spanish: Isla Wager) is an uninhabited island in Guayaneco Archipelago, a remote part of western Patagonia. Located 1,600 kilometres (990
Wager_Island
1734 East Indiaman, later sixth-rate frigate
HMS Wager was a square-rigged sixth-rate Royal Navy ship of 28 guns. It was built as an East Indiaman in about 1734 and made two voyages to India for
HMS_Wager_(1739)
1741 British naval mutiny
The Wager Mutiny is a historical event that took place in 1741, after the British warship HMS Wager was wrecked on a desolate island off the south coast
Wager_Mutiny
William Wager (fl. 1566), writer of interludes, is known only by his works. 'A very mery and pythie Commedie, called, The longer thou livest, the more
William_Wager
List of ships with the same or similar names
name HMS Wager. Another was planned but later cancelled: HMS Wager (1739) was a 24-gun sixth rate purchased in 1739 and wrecked in 1741. HMS Wager (1744)
HMS_Wager
Federal gambling law
betting or wagering knowingly uses a wire communication facility for the transmission in interstate or foreign commerce of bets or wagers or information
Federal_Wire_Act
English actor and television writer (1932–1990)
Anthony A. Wager (24 June 1932 – 23 December 1990) was an English actor and television writer. He is best known for portraying the role of the young Pip
Anthony_Wager
British jewellery designer (1875–1953)
Rhoda Wager (10 March 1875 – 2 December 1953) was a British jewellery designer who later settled in Australia. She was born on 10 March 1875 in Mile End
Rhoda_Wager
2013 science fiction novel by Zoltan Istvan
The Transhumanist Wager is a 2013 science fiction novel by American author Zoltan Istvan. The novel follows the life of Jethro Knights, a philosopher
The_Transhumanist_Wager
British geologist, explorer and mountaineer (1904–1965)
Lawrence Rickard Wager, commonly known as Bill Wager, (5 February 1904 – 20 November 1965) was a British geologist, explorer and mountaineer, described
Lawrence_Wager
2007 American film
The Wager is a 2007 Christian drama film, directed by Judson Pearce Morgan and starring Randy Travis, Jude Ciccolella and Candace Cameron Bure. It was
The_Wager_(2007_film)
2020 video game
Pascal's Wager is a Soulslike action role-playing video game developed by TipsWorks and published by Giant Network and Yooreka Studio. Players control
Pascal's_Wager_(video_game)
American actor
Michael Wager (born Emanuel Weisgal, April 29, 1925 – c. January 2012) was an American film and television actor. Wager was born in New York, New York
Michael_Wager
American novelist
Walter Herman Wager (September 4, 1924 – July 11, 2004) was an American crime and espionage-thriller novelist and former editor-in-chief of Playbill magazine
Walter_Wager
1980 scientific wager
The Simon–Ehrlich wager was a 1980 scientific wager between economist Julian Simon and biologist Paul Ehrlich, betting on a mutually agreed-on measure
Simon–Ehrlich_wager
English Royal Navy officer and politician
Admiral of the White Sir Charles Wager, PC (24 February 1666 – 24 May 1743) was an English Royal Navy officer and politician who served as Senior Naval
Charles_Wager
American psychologist
Tor D. Wager is the Diana L. Taylor Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience at Dartmouth College, as well as the director of the Cognitive and Affective
Tor_Wager
Alfred Wäger (17 August 1883 – 9 July 1956) was a General of the Infantry in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during the Second World War who commanded several
Alfred_Wäger
Roman legal procedure
down a legal wager at the preliminary hearing, probably to discourage frivolous litigation. In some cases, if the party lost, the wager went to the other
Legal_wager
Bet on the outcome of a scientific question
A scientific wager is a wager whose outcome is settled by experiment or observation, following the scientific method. It typically comprises a commitment
Scientific_wager
Idea that a concept is ill-defined, and therefore cannot be discussed
Loki's wager is the insistence that because two or more categories exist as poles on a spectrum with a grey area in the middle, the distinction between
Loki's_wager
American composer
Gregg Wager (born September 16, 1958 in Adrian, Michigan) is an American composer, pianist, and music critic. He studied composition at the University
Gregg_Wager
Argument as to whether a good life with a positive legacy necessitates existence of God
The Atheist's wager, coined by the philosopher Michael Martin and published in his 1990 book Atheism: A Philosophical Justification, is an atheistic response
Atheist's_wager
Archibald Wager was an 18th-century civil servant in colonial Virginia. Wager served as the Clerk of Court for three counties: Hampshire County (1755–1757)
Archibald_Wager
Turing's Wager is a philosophical argument that claims it is impossible to infer or deduce a detailed mathematical model of the human brain within a reasonable
Turing's_Wager
British Royal Navy officer
He is most known for being in command of HMS Wager when it was wrecked in May 1741 on the shores of Wager Island in Chilean Patagonia. Spain and Great
David_Cheap
Michael Wager (May 17, 1951 – July 8, 2023) was an attorney for Taft Stettinius & Hollister in Cleveland, Ohio, serving as the Chair of the firm's Business
Michael_Wager_(politician)
Casino operated on an internet platform
("brick and mortar") casinos. Online casinos enable gamblers to play and wager on casino games through the Internet. It is a prolific form of online gambling
Online_casino
Mediaeval legal defence
Compurgation, also called trial by oath, wager of law, and oath-helping, was a defence used primarily in medieval law. A defendant could establish his
Compurgation
A friendly political wager is a largely symbolic form of sports betting made between politicians representing two cities or areas on the outcome of an
Friendly_political_wager
1708 battle of the War of the Spanish Succession
Wager's Action was fought on 8 June 1708 between a Royal Navy squadron under Charles Wager and a Franco-Spanish convoy under José de Santillán and Jean-Baptiste
Wager's_Action
Game of chance
in some lotteries. Players wager by choosing numbers ranging from 1 through (usually) 80. After all players make their wagers, 20 numbers (some variants
Keno
Destroyer of the Royal Navy
HMS Wager was a W-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served in the Second World War. She was sold to the Yugoslav Navy in 1956, renamed Pula, and
HMS_Wager_(R98)
Wagering excise taxes, also known as federal taxes, are levied against specific gaming forms in the United States. Wagers are accepted by places such
Wagering_excise_taxes
Method of settling accusations within Germanic law by dueling
Trial by combat (also wager of battle, trial by battle or judicial duel) was a method of Germanic law to settle accusations in the absence of witnesses
Trial_by_combat
Taylor Wager FRS (11 March 1862 – 17 November 1929) was a British botanist and mycologist. He was the uncle of the geologist Lawrence Rickard Wager. He was
Harold_Wager
Mexican-style professional wrestling
contested in which the loser must permanently remove his mask, which is a wager with a high degree of weight attached. Tag team wrestling is especially
Lucha_libre
Gambling card game
wager is typically placed in a designated area next to the box for the main wager. A player wishing to wager on a side bet usually must place a wager
Blackjack
American actress
Alexandra Wager is an American former child actress. Wager is the daughter of actor Michael Wager. She made her television debut in March 1958, at age
Alexandra_Wager
Form of betting on horse races
Advance-deposit wagering (ADW) is a form of gambling on the outcome of horse races in which bettors must fund their account before being allowed to place
Advance-deposit_wagering
The Carr–Benkler wager between Yochai Benkler and Nicholas Carr concerned the question whether the most influential sites on the Internet will be peer-produced
Carr–Benkler_wager
English theoretical physicist (1942–2018)
scientific wager about whether the astrophysical X-ray source Cygnus X-1 in the Cygnus constellation was a black hole. For Hawking, the wager was an "insurance
Stephen_Hawking
American politician (1804–1870)
David Wager (March 17, 1804 – July 27, 1870) was an American politician from New York. He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Oneida Co.) in
David_Wager
General in Chief of the Union Armies in the American Civil War (1815-1872)
Henry Wager Halleck (January 16, 1815 – January 9, 1872) was a senior United States Army officer, scholar, and lawyer. A noted expert in military studies
Henry_Halleck
AI thought experiment
probability and implicit religion. It is also regarded as a version of Pascal's wager. The LessWrong forum was created in 2009 by artificial intelligence theorist
Roko's_basilisk
Gambling game long played in China
where all winning wagers are paid according to the true odds of success. The pool of money used to pay off bets is the total amount wagered on all positions
Fan-Tan
Dice game
players bet on the outcomes of the roll of a pair of dice. Players can wager money against each other (playing "street craps") or against a bank ("casino
Craps
American television quiz show
category, then wager any amount from 0 to their current score. They then receive the clue and must write their response in 30 seconds. Teams' wagers are added
Pop_Culture_Jeopardy!
2019 American TV series or program
ESPN Bet Live (formerly Daily Wager) is an American sports betting discussion program, that was broadcast by ESPN2 on Thursday, Friday, and Monday evenings
ESPN_Bet_Live
Bay in Nunavut, Canada
Wager Bay or Ukkusiksalik Bay is long narrow inlet in the Kivalliq Region of Nunavut, Canada, which opens east into Roes Welcome Sound at the northwest
Wager_Bay
Chinese casino game of chance
on the table show that players have the option to wager on one, two, or three dice. A one-die wager pays out when the number which is bet shows up on
Sic_bo
Wager used in horse and dog racing
daily double is a parimutuel wager offered by horse racing and greyhound racing tracks in North America. Bettors wager on the winners of two consecutive
Daily_double
Ratio of the probability of an event happening versus not happening
possible loss ("stake" or "wager") is paid up front and, if the gambler wins, the net win plus the stake is returned. So wagering 2 at "3 to 2", pays out
Odds
Wager in which a bettor picks one horse in each of six races
A pick 6 is a type of wager offered by horse racing tracks. It requires bettors to select the winners of six consecutive races. Because of the great difficulty
Pick_6_(horse_racing)
1932 film
The Love Wager is a 1933 British comedy film directed by A. Cyran and starring Pat Paterson, Frank Stanmore and Wallace Douglas. It was written by Moira
The_Love_Wager
Form of gambling
activity of predicting sports results and placing a wager on the outcome. Sports bettors place their wagers either legally, through a sportsbook or bookmaker
Sports_betting
High school in Quebec, Canada
Wagar High School was a high school at 5785 Parkhaven Avenue in Côte Saint-Luc, Quebec, Canada. It opened its doors in 1963 as part of the Protestant School
Wagar_High_School
French polymath (1623–1662)
the conflict between Jansenists and Jesuits. The latter contains Pascal's wager, known in the original as the Discourse on the Machine, a fideistic probabilistic
Blaise_Pascal
Casino game
either wager. Additional optional bets are offered. The Pair Plus wager is a bet that the player's hand will be a pair or better. The Pair Plus wager wins
Three_Card_Poker
Type of wagering where the pay-off is based on the accuracy of the wager
the outcome of an event where the pay-off is based on the accuracy of the wager, rather than a simple "win or lose" outcome,[contradictory] such as fixed-odds
Spread_betting
Brazilian footballer (born 1992)
gaming product, promoting the sports betting platform's new multiplier‐based wager. In the days leading up to the 2022 Brazilian presidential election, Neymar
Neymar
Canadian gambler
he became famed as "a man who would do anything to win a bet". A famous wager was in 1996 when he agreed to receive breast implants and keep them for
Brian_Zembic
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
Rooms (1995). This oft-anthologised classic concerns a man in Jamaica who wagers with visitors in an attempt to claim the fingers from their hands. The original
Roald_Dahl
American gaming company founded in 1975
anniversary as a publicly traded company. During that year IGT acquired Wager Works, and the company unveiled its first multi-level progressive Mega Jackpots
International Game Technology (1975–2015)
International_Game_Technology_(1975–2015)
Sports gambling establishment
A sportsbook is a venue where a gambler can place wagers on sporting events, such as golf, football, basketball, baseball, ice hockey, soccer, horse racing
Sportsbook
American professional wrestler (born 1990)
Winner (wager) Loser (wager) Location Event Date Notes Microman (mask) Danhausen (mask) Dallas, Texas GCW Crime Wave 2024 June 9, 2024
Danhausen
American general and politician (1834–1902)
Wager Swayne (November 10, 1834 – December 18, 1902) was a Union Army colonel during the American Civil War and was appointed as the last major general
Wager_Swayne
Canadian actress (born 1973)
The Man In the High Castle, When Calls the Heart, Candiland, Patterson's Wager, Three Weeks, Three Kids, On Strike For Christmas, Marley & Me: The Puppy
Chelah_Horsdal
Gambling card game
with a matching wager. A maximum of one player may "go bank". If no one "goes bank", players make their wagers in order. If the total wagers from the players
Baccarat
Mexican professional wrestler (born 1982)
Winner (wager) Loser (wager) Location Event Date Notes Mascarita Sagrada (mask) Mascarita Maligna (mask) Monterrey, Nuevo León AAA show April 6, 2003
Mascarita_Dorada
Measure of belief strength used in statistics
flip is $100, then a reasonable risk-neutral person will wager $49 on heads, but will not wager $51 on heads. Credence is a measure of belief strength,
Credence_(statistics)
British seaman
a British seaman, best known for leading survivors of the wreck of HMS Wager to safety. Bulkeley was the ship's gunner, not one of her commissioned officers
John Bulkeley (Royal Navy gunner)
John_Bulkeley_(Royal_Navy_gunner)
Type of wager at a sportsbook
over/under (O/U) bet is a wager in which a sportsbook will predict a number for a statistic in a given game and bettors wager that the actual number in
Over–under
2005 board game
Wits & Wagers is a board game designed by Dominic Crapuchettes and Nate Heasley. It is published by North Star Games. The first edition of the game was
Wits_and_Wagers
Traditional song
Hill", "The Broomfield Wager" "The Merry Broomfield", "The Green Broomfield", "A Wager, a Wager", or "The West Country Wager" (Child 43, Roud 34) is
The_Broomfield_Hill
American online prediction gambling company
the legality of its sports and election markets, the ethics of allowing wagers on sensitive geopolitical issues, and insider trading involving politicians
Kalshi
Title of several paintings depicting Cleopatra and Mark Antony
Cleopatra is the title of several paintings showing the culmination of a wager between Cleopatra and Mark Antony as to which one could provide the most
The_Banquet_of_Cleopatra
Early Christian and Jewish religious systems
Nyayakusumanjali Ontological Anselm Gödel Meinongian Modal Mulla Sadra Pascal's wager Reason Proper basis and Reformed epistemology Responses to the problem of
Gnosticism
Gambling prize that increases until won
progressive jackpot is only offered to players who wager the maximum number of credits per play. All wagers, whether or not they are maximum-credit bets, contribute
Progressive_jackpot
Canadian rapper and singer (born 1986)
during gambling livestreams by presenting Stake-funded bets as personal wagers. A second lawsuit was filed against Drake, Ross, and Stake's parent company
Drake_(musician)
Electronic gambling device
is a type of electronic gambling machine. HHR machines allow players to wager on replays of horse races or dog races that have already been run, paid
Historical_horse_racing
Card game based on poker
Let It Ride is a casino table game based on poker, where the player wagers on a five-card poker hand formed by their own three cards and two community
Let_It_Ride_(card_game)
Connecticut include two Indian casinos (Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun), parimutuel wagering, charitable gaming, the Connecticut Lottery, and sports betting. Connecticut
Gambling_in_Connecticut
19th-century competitive walking contest
19th-century form of competitive walking, often professional and funded by wagering, from which the modern sport of racewalking developed. During the late
Pedestrianism
Australian gambling entertainment company
company, employing more than 5,000 people. It is the largest provider of wagering and gaming products and services in Australia. Tabcorp is listed on the
Tabcorp
Doubt about God's existence
practical consequences rather than its theoretical justifications. Pascal's wager recommends belief in God based on considerations of possible outcomes. It
Agnosticism
German human rights activist (1919–2014)
Irmtraut Wäger (29 August 1919 – 2 October 2014) was a German human rights activist. She was primarily known for her support of Tibetan refugees in India
Irmtraut_Wäger
79th edition of the NBA draft
considerations Washington acquired Isaac Bonga, Jemerrio Jones, Moritz Wager, and 2022 second-round pick July 6, 2024: New Orleans Pelicans to Atlanta
2025_NBA_draft
British painter and sculptor
Paul Wager (born 1949) is a British painter and sculptor who studied at Sunderland and Newcastle Polytechnics, then the Royal College of Art. He was assistant
Paul_Wager
1999 film by George Lucas
Force. With Watto refusing to accept payment in Republic currency, Qui-Gon wagers both the required hyperdrive part and Anakin's freedom on a podrace. Anakin
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
Star_Wars:_Episode_I_–_The_Phantom_Menace
"Wintertime Wager" is a 10-page Disney comics story written, drawn, and lettered by Carl Barks. It was first published in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories
Wintertime_Wager
Bet amount in a fixed-limit poker game
amounts in a fixed-limit poker game. Big bets are generally double the wager of the initial or small bet, and are used in the latter betting rounds of
Big_bet
Fee charged by a bookmaker for accepting a gambler's wager
or the vig) is the fee charged by a bookmaker for accepting a gambler's wager. In American English, it can also refer to the interest owed to a loanshark
Vigorish
Top-4 wager in parimutuel betting
superfecta in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The superfecta is a type of wager in the United States and Canada parimutuel betting in which the bettor,
Superfecta
Philosophical thought experiment about utility
refers to Pascal's Wager, but unlike the wager, it does not require infinite rewards. This sidesteps many objections to the Pascal's Wager dilemma that are
Pascal's_mugging
WAGER
WAGER
Male
Italian
Italian form of Greek Paris, probably PARIDE means "wager."Â
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained.German (also Wäger), Swiss German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Middle High German wæger ‘weigher’, German Waager, an occupational name for an official responsible for weighing produce, especially produce offered as rent in kind, or for an official in charge of checking weights and measures used by merchants.
Male
Greek
(ΠάÏις) Greek name probably derived from the word pari, PARIS means "wager." In mythology, this is the name of the son of Priam who kidnapped HelénÄ“ and later fatally wounded Achilles. Because it had been prophesied that he would cause the collapse of Troy, his father gave him to a shepherd to be destroyed. The shepherd could not bring himself to kill the baby so he left him in the desert. Five days later he found the infant still alive and decided to "take a chance," and raise the child himself. He named the baby Paris. Compare with another form of Paris.
Surname or Lastname
English and German
English and German : variant of Wager.
Surname or Lastname
English and German
English and German : variant spelling of Wager.
WAGER
WAGER
Girl/Female
Indian
Thinking, Wishing well of
Boy/Male
English American Hebrew
and Zachary.
Boy/Male
Arabic, Indian, Muslim, Sindhi
Useful; From the Verb Fada to Overflow
Boy/Male
Indian
Single
Male
Celtic
, Mars the chief.
Girl/Female
Indian, Tamil
Beautiful Woman
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Tamil
Silent; Silence
Female
English
Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Aisling, ASHLING means "dream; vision."
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Indian
Small Part of Heart
Boy/Male
Arabic
Warner; Cautioner
WAGER
WAGER
WAGER
WAGER
WAGER
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Wager
v. t.
To put at hazard upon the issue of competition, or upon a future contingency; to wager; to pledge.
a.
Hazarding; pertaining to the act of one who wagers.
n.
The holder of a stake; one with whom the bets are deposited when a wager is laid.
v. t.
To stake; to wager.
v. t.
To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
n.
A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.
n.
A contest for superiority; competition; rivalry; strife; also, a challenge; a wager.
v. t.
To swindle by means of small cups or thimbles, and a pea or small ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to another, the victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is; hence, to cheat by any trick.
v. t.
To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.
v. t.
Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.
n.
the division by a player of one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value; the player is usually obliged to increase the amount wagered by placing a sum equal to the original bet on the new hand thus created.
n.
One who wagers, or lays a bet.
v. t.
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.
imp. & p. p.
of Wager
v. t.
That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
n.
That which is staked; a wager; a venture; a stake; hence, a game at venture.
v. i.
To make a bet; to lay a wager.