wager

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But I'd wager they are a fairly rare breed.

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Quick take

the act of gambling; "he did it on a bet"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of wager gathered in one view.

noun

the act of gambling; "he did it on a bet"

noun

the money risked on a gamble

verb

stake on the outcome of an issue; "I bet $100 on that new horse"; "She played all her money on the dark horse"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for wager.

noun

the act of gambling; "he did it on a bet"

noun

the money risked on a gamble

verb

stake on the outcome of an issue; "I bet $100 on that new horse"; "She played all her money on the dark horse"

verb

maintain with or as if with a bet; "I bet she will be there!"

Example sentences

But I'd wager they are a fairly rare breed.

I can't prove it but I am willing to wager that a juicer firm commissioned the article.

I would wager more money is made via Linux than iOS by a fairly large margin.

Unless the code was being written for an obfuscated Java contest, I'd wager it was buggy.

The money is great and provides a good monetary incentive but when it comes down to it I'd wager people would do this for free.

If they built the same standalone IM client with no popup windows on Android, I'd wager their experience would be quite different.

As far as stability Emacs is definitely competitive with the many editors / IDEs I've tried in the past so I'd wager Light Table will do just fine with this model.

I'd wager it's less than 40%.No, what typically happens is that an analyst or software dev notices someone's cool spreadsheet and says "hey, I can make something that does this job, but it'll be a LOT faster and I'll put the data up in the cloud and multiple people can access it at once and..."And that sounds great, so they get a little budget and a project is born.