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wager

nomverbenomattesté dans les dialogues

  • Royaume-Uni//ˈweɪ.d͡ʒə(ɹ)//
  • Canada//ˈweɪ.d͡ʒɚ//
  • Australie//ˈwæɪ.d͡ʒə(ɹ)//

A bet; a stake; a pledge.

nom

  1. 1

    A bet; a stake; a pledge.

    They have hired high-tech security companies to monitor wagers at a granular level and implemented sophisticated algorithmic systems to spot unusual gambling activity, ensuring that no athlete would be foolish enough to wager on a game. […] And prop bets have proved particularly ripe for manipulation. A prop bet is a wager on a specific occurrence during a game, rather than on the final result.

  2. 2

    The subject of a bet.

  3. 3

    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.

    Besides these Plates, the Wagers may be as the Persons please among themselves, but the Horses must be evidenced by good Testimonies to have been bred in Ireland.

    If any atheist can stake his soul for a wager against such an inexhaustible disproportion, let him never hereafter accuse others of credulity.

  4. 4

    An offer to make oath.

Étymologie

From Middle English wajour, wageour, wager, from Old Northern French wageure, from wagier (“to pledge”) (compare Old French guagier, whence modern French gager and contemporary Walloon wadjî), ultimately from Frankish *waddjōn (“to pledge”), from Frankish *wadi ~ *waddī (“pledge”). See also wage.

verbe

  1. 1

    To bet something; to put it up as collateral.

    I'd wager my boots on it.

    They have hired high-tech security companies to monitor wagers at a granular level and implemented sophisticated algorithmic systems to spot unusual gambling activity, ensuring that no athlete would be foolish enough to wager on a game.

  2. 2

    figuréTo suppose; to dare say.

    I'll wager that Johnson knows something about all this.

nom

  1. 1

    Aussi une forme de wageAgent noun of wage; one who wages.

    They were wagers of warfare against the wilderness and the Indians, and founders of families and towns.

    Hatshepsut was no wager of wars, no bloodstained conqueror.

Étymologie

Etymology tree Middle English fro-norbor. ▲ Middle English wagebor. Middle English wage English wage Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English wager From wage (verb) + -er.

Formes

pluriel
wagers
passé
wagered
participe passé
wagered
participe présent
wagering
3ᵉ personne du singulier
wagers
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).