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  5  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Wager  \Wa"ger\,  n.  [OE.  wager,  wajour,  OF  wagiere  or  wageure 
  E.  gageure  See  {Wage},  v.  t.] 
  1.  Something  deposited,  laid,  or  hazarded  on  the  event  of  a 
  contest  or  an  unsettled  question;  a  bet;  a  stake;  a 
  pledge. 
 
  Besides  these  plates  for  horse  races,  the  wagers  may 
  be  as  the  persons  please.  --Sir  W. 
  Temple. 
 
  If  any  atheist  can  stake  his  soul  for  a  wager 
  against  such  an  inexhaustible  disproportion,  let  him 
  never  hereafter  accuse  others  of  credulity. 
  --Bentley. 
 
  2.  (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.  --Bouvier. 
 
  Note:  At  common  law  a  wager  is  considered  as  a  legal  contract 
  which  the  courts  must  enforce  unless  it  be  on  a  subject 
  contrary  to  public  policy,  or  immoral,  or  tending  to 
  the  detriment  of  the  public,  or  affecting  the  interest, 
  feelings,  or  character  of  a  third  person.  In  many  of 
  the  United  States  an  action  can  not  be  sustained  upon 
  any  wager  or  bet.  --Chitty.  --Bouvier. 
 
  3.  That  on  which  bets  are  laid;  the  subject  of  a  bet. 
 
  {Wager  of  battel},  or  {Wager  of  battle}  (O.  Eng.  Law),  the 
  giving  of  gage,  or  pledge,  for  trying  a  cause  by  single 
  combat,  formerly  allowed  in  military,  criminal,  and  civil 
  causes.  In  writs  of  right  where  the  trial  was  by 
  champions,  the  tenant  produced  his  champion,  who  by 
  throwing  down  his  glove  as  a  gage,  thus  waged,  or 
  stipulated,  battle  with  the  champion  of  the  demandant, 
  who  by  taking  up  the  glove,  accepted  the  challenge.  The 
  wager  of  battel,  which  has  been  long  in  disuse,  was 
  abolished  in  England  in  1819,  by  a  statute  passed  in 
  consequence  of  a  defendant's  having  waged  his  battle  in  a 
  case  which  arose  about  that  period.  See  {Battel}. 
 
  {Wager  of  law}  (Law),  the  giving  of  gage,  or  sureties,  by  a 
  defendant  in  an  action  of  debt,  that  at  a  certain  day 
  assigned  he  would  take  a  law,  or  oath,  in  open  court,  that 
  he  did  not  owe  the  debt,  and  at  the  same  time  bring  with 
  him  eleven  neighbors  (called  compurgators),  who  should 
  avow  upon  their  oaths  that  they  believed  in  their 
  consciences  that  he  spoke  the  truth. 
 
  {Wager  policy}.  (Insurance  Law)  See  under  {Policy}. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Wager  \Wa"ger\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Wagered};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Wagering}.] 
  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. 
 
  And  wagered  with  him  Pieces  of  gold  'gainst  this  which 
  he  wore.  --Shak. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Wager  \Wa"ger\,  v.  i. 
  To  make  a  bet;  to  lay  a  wager. 
 
  'T  was  merry  when  You  wagered  on  your  angling.  --Shak. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Wager  \Wa"ger\,  n. 
 
  {Wagering,  or  gambling},  {contract}.  A  contract  which  is  of 
  the  nature  of  wager.  Contracts  of  this  nature  include 
  various  common  forms  of  valid  commercial  contracts,  as 
  contracts  of  insurance,  contracts  dealing  in  futures, 
  options,  etc  Other  wagering  contracts  and  bets  are  now 
  generally  made  illegal  by  statute  against  betting  and 
  gambling,  and  wagering  has  in  many  cases  been  made  a 
  criminal  offence.  Wages  \Wa"ges\,  n.  pl  (Theoretical 
  Economics) 
  The  share  of  the  annual  product  or  national  dividend  which 
  goes  as  a  reward  to  labor,  as  distinct  from  the  remuneration 
  received  by  capital  in  its  various  forms.  This  economic  or 
  technical  sense  of  the  word  wages  is  broader  than  the  current 
  sense  and  includes  not  only  amounts  actually  paid  to 
  laborers,  but  the  remuneration  obtained  by  those  who  sell  the 
  products  of  their  own  work  and  the  wages  of  superintendence 
  or  management,  which  are  earned  by  skill  in  directing  the 
  work  of  others 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  wager 
  n  1:  the  act  of  gambling;  "he  did  it  on  a  bet"  [syn:  {bet},  {risking}, 
  {hazarding},  {staking}] 
  2:  the  money  risked  on  a  gamble  [syn:  {stake},  {stakes},  {bet}] 
  v  1:  stake  money  on  the  outcome  of  an  issue  [syn:  {bet}] 
  2:  maintain  with  or  as  if  with  a  bet;  "I  bet  she  will  be 
  there!"  [syn:  {bet}] 




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