Get to know Wager better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like bet or play. In Dutch this translates to weddenschap.
Wager in a sentence
Related words
Wager meaning
- A bet; a stake; a pledge.
- The subject of a bet.
- 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.
Synonyms of Wager
Wager vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Wager
- The main meaning on this page is: A bet; a stake; a pledge. | The subject of a bet. | 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.
- Useful related words include: bet, play, gamble, promise.
- Possible Dutch translations are: weddenschap.
- In the example corpus, wager often appears in combinations such as: wager on, to wager, the wager.
Context around Wager
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 8 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Wager
- In this selection, "wager" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, 100, blackjack, bet, except, placed and anywhere stand out and add context to how "wager" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a 10 wager on an and a 100 wager on this. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "wager" sits close to words such as alicia, allotted and apocalyptic, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with wager
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A $100 wager placed on Story would’ve netted a $540 total payout. (13 words)
Some games require that the blackjack wager should equal or exceed any side bet wager. (15 words)
A $100 wager on this prop bet would have resulted in a total of $160. (15 words)
A wager is placed, and two cards are placed face up on the table, with three possible outcomes: *If the cards are consecutive in number (for example, a four and a five, or a jack and a queen), the hand is a push and the player's wager is returned. (50 words)
Wins are paid out at 1:1, or equal to the wager, except for winning blackjacks, which are traditionally paid at 3:2 (meaning the player receives three dollars for every two bet), or one-and-a-half times the wager. (41 words)
Anthony Waller, CEO of leading bookmaker Bet Right, has revealed the huge wager that's been put on the mountain men as they try to become the first side to three-peat since the great Parramatta team of the early 1980s. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
A player wishing to wager on a side bet is usually required to place a wager on blackjack.
A wager is placed, and two cards are placed face up on the table, with three possible outcomes: *If the cards are consecutive in number (for example, a four and a five, or a jack and a queen), the hand is a push and the player's wager is returned.
Some games require that the blackjack wager should equal or exceed any side bet wager.
The player with the highest individual wager (or first in play order if tied for highest wager) is selected to represent the group of non-banker players.
Thereby losing a wager with Picard, Q is bound by the terms of the wager to stay out of humanity's path forever.
Under a flexi system the bettor can nominate their desired total wager, and their percentage of payout is determined by this wager's relationship to the full unit price.
Wins are paid out at 1:1, or equal to the wager, except for winning blackjacks, which are traditionally paid at 3:2 (meaning the player receives three dollars for every two bet), or one-and-a-half times the wager.
A $100 wager on this prop bet would have resulted in a total of $160.
A $100 wager placed on Story would’ve netted a $540 total payout.
And a $10 wager on an eight-pick NBA parlay earned one bettor a cool $1,994 payout.
And if you want a safe bet, put a wager on the real number being far, far higher – given few people are now reporting their positive cases to authorities.
Anthony Waller, CEO of leading bookmaker Bet Right, has revealed the huge wager that's been put on the mountain men as they try to become the first side to three-peat since the great Parramatta team of the early 1980s.
Any wager will be insured up to the $1K ceiling, so this promotion works for people at all budget levels.
As with above, that means if you bet on the Super Bowl and your bet wins, you win, and if it loses, you get your wager back into your account in bet credits for future use.
At -178, an outright bet on Magny is probably the safest wager, but Rowe by KO/TKO is pretty tempting at +420.
A term used to describe when a player has placed a wager anywhere on the number section of the table layout.
Because bettors tend to look for the prop bets offering whether a game will reach OT, the other better-priced wager is often ignored.
Because of that wager and other action, the outcome was a rough start to the weekend for some of the sportsbooks.
Betano customers can wager on Premier League games or long-term markets, i.e. who will be the outright league winner.
But that wager went begging too, with Detroit, Washington and the getting only TDs, no field goals.
Common combinations with wager
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- wager on 45×
- to wager 34×
- the wager 17×
- and wager 12×
- wager that 12×
- can wager 9×
- wager the 9×
- place wager 8×
- first wager 8×
- wager is 6×