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Crossword-Solution: WAGER 5 letters, 103 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Wager v. t. Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a
contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.
Wager 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.
Wager v. t. That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.
Wager 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.
Wager v. i. To make a bet; to lay a wager.

We have 103 clues for the answer “WAGER”

Clue Answers
"Friendly" action 1 answer
"Jeopardy!" strategic move 1 answer
$2 item 1 answer
$2 on the gray mare, e.g. 1 answer
Amount that appears below a Final Jeopardy response 1 answer
Aspect of "Final Jeopardy" 1 answer
Bettor business? 1 answer
Bit of casino action 1 answer
Bucks on a horse, e.g. 1 answer
Dare follower, perhaps 1 answer
Dare follower, sometimes 1 answer
Gambler's venture 1 answer
Hazard, in a way 1 answer
Hialeah transaction 1 answer
It might be placed at a window 1 answer
It's made at fights 1 answer
It's won or lost. 1 answer
Money on the outcome. 1 answer
Mutuel transaction 1 answer
Pari-mutuel offering. 1 answer
Parimutuel proposition 1 answer
Perfecta or exacta 1 answer
Place a stake 1 answer
Play red or black 1 answer
Procedure at Churchill Downs 1 answer
Put a buck on black, say 1 answer
Put it on the line 1 answer
Racetrack placement 1 answer
Reno transaction 1 answer
Risk losing one's shirt, say 1 answer
Risk of a sort 1 answer
Roulette risk 1 answer
Side bet e.g. 1 answer
Something often laid at a window 1 answer
Staked amount 1 answer
Tout's subject 1 answer
Transaction at a racetrack 1 answer
Transaction at the track 1 answer
Two chips, perhaps 1 answer
Use the mutuels 1 answer
Welsher's nonpayment. 1 answer
What you may make at a fight 1 answer
Put up a stake 2 answers
Daily double, e.g. 2 answers
Exacta or quinella 2 answers
Money at stake 2 answers
Play favorites, perhaps 2 answers
Put money (on) 2 answers
Quinella, e.g. 2 answers
Racetrack transaction 2 answers
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with WAGER (5)

The play went on for some ten minutes after this, until the count won a considerable wager from him who had last joined the game, and then Tarzan saw the fellow back of the count’s chair nod his head to his confederate.
The Return of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Failing of which, we do pronounce to you, that we hold ye as robbers and traitors, and will wager our bodies against ye in battle, siege, or otherwise, and do our utmost to your annoyance and destruction.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
Then, with a smile, he said: “And the pretty princess? Faith, I’ll wager the next Elphberg will be red enough, for all that Black Michael will be called his father.” I sprang a step towards him, clenching my hand.
The Prisoner of Zenda Anthony Hope 1993
First came quick, funny little steps, like a man walking on tiptoe for a wager; then came slow, careless, creaking steps, as of a big man walking about with a cigar.
The Innocence of Father Brown G. K. Chesterton 1995
They pounded his boat to pieces, they silenced his single gun, And captured the whole consignment, for none of 'em cared to run; And it don't say whether they shot him -- it don't even give his name -- But whatever they did I'll wager that he went to his graveyard game.
The Man from Snowy River Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson 1995

Quotes with WAGER (3)

So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak sense of Pascal's wager. But on second thoughts it seems a cop-out, because the same could be said of Father Christmas and tooth fairies. There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?
Richard Dawkins
I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place, since any God worth believing in would prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.
Alan M. Dershowitz Letters to a Young Lawyer (Art of Mentoring
I suspect you're thinking of Pascal,' Finkler said, finally.'Only he said the opposite. He said you might as well wager on God because that way, even if He doesn't exist, you've nothing to lose. Whereas if you wager against God and He does exist...' 'You're in the shit.
Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 136 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).