Wager
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| - | # A [[wager]], an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly forecast the outcome of an event). | + | # Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a [[bet]]; a [[stake]]; a [[pledge]]. |
| - | # A degree of [[certainty]]. | + | # 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. |
| - | #: ''It’s a safe '''bet''' that it will rain tomorrow.'' | + | # That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet. |
| - | #: ''It’s an even '''bet''' that Jim will come top of the maths test tomorrow'' | + | |
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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.
- 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.
- That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.
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